Re: Alerting - Malicious software removal tool

Leythos, which "security people" claim the tool is useless?

Your claim is certainly unsubstantiated by the data. We released the tool in early 2005. As of June 2008, the tool has executed almost three billion times and has performed over 62 million disinfections on almost 24 million distinct computers.

This information, plus much more research, is available from our twice-yearly Security Intelligence Report. You can download the latest edition from http://www.microsoft.com/sir. You can see a list of the malware families the MSRT recognizes at http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/families.mspx; we update this page each time we update the tool.


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"Leythos" <spam999free@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.23961e7a3a10bda989715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <AAB34DA4-BCE3-4295-9232-CF0AB26E5E82@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeepn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Thanks, but I am refering to Microsofts Malicious Software Removal tool not
3rd party antivirus software.


The MSRT is useless as far as most security people are concerned, why
bother with it?


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