Microsoft cleans almost 1 million PCs with malware

[PrntRhd]

Microsoft ran a malicious software removal tool this last Patch Tuesday, removing almost a million copies of malware masquerading as security software:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-microsoft-cleans-fake-antivirus-tool-from-994061-pcs.html

And you wondered why Classicsoftware was busy reviewing HJT logs here.
:eek:

[halovivek]

I hope they started to learn more.

[Sylvander]

I wonder how many Linux distros are in need of disinfection?

N[ot-so-much-as-]ONE? :D :cool:

I'm presently working here in Puppy Linux, and its kinda nice to feel that even though the only protective program I have running here is a [probably redundant] firewall, this has about as much chance of becoming infected as I do of winning the lottery [and I don't buy any lottery tickets!], or being struck by an Asteroid. :D

[mjc]

It is a myth that Linux can't be infested...but it is much harder to do, on a properly configured system and most of the exploits that allow Windows to be so easily infested are 'plugged' by default on a Linux box. So yeah, there are a few Linux machines running around out there (there is a theory that some of the infested Linux machines were done on purpose, because they are servers in known 'malware' friendly IP blocks...)

[Sylvander]

"So yeah, there are a few Linux machines running around out there"
Did you mean to say:
"So yeah, there are a few INFECTED Linux machines running around out there"?

I've seen it said out there that there are people who know people who CLAIM to have been infected...
But no-one who actually steps forth and says personally that their machine has been, or is, infected.

[mjc]

Like I said, most of them are running in IP blocks that are known 'malware friendly' and they are servers...

[‡*¶ϠõÞλ]

i'm fortunate to never been infected.