The latest Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool also scrubs Superfish off of computers

[wickedplayer494]

[url]http://www.computerworld.com/article/2895882/joint-effort-guts-superfish.html[/url]

[quote=Computerworld]Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the Superfish adware to below 1,000.

In a blog post announcing the addition of another Superfish clean-up tool, Microsoft's security team said that the number of infected PCs detected by its software peaked at around 60,000 on Feb. 21, slumped slightly over the next two days before falling precipitously. By Feb. 25, the daily number of infected PCs encountered by Microsoft's tools had dropped to around 3,000, sliding further over the next several days to what appeared to be less than 1,000 each day.

All told, Microsoft implied that about a quarter of a million Lenovo PCs were cleansed of Superfish between Feb. 20 and March 4.

[B]Microsoft's numbers came from its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), a free utility pushed to Windows PCs monthly via Windows Update.[/B] MSRT, a companion to real-time security software like antivirus programs, includes a smaller set of "fingerprints" that detect and delete malware that Microsoft believes is the most pervasive or threatening.[/quote]

[Mike_Tyson]

lets hope this never happens again

[Xonax]

What is Superfish?

[fpro]

It's like a super fast jellyfish but with the fast and jelly parts removed.

[hellothere12]

[QUOTE=Xonax;47338418]What is Superfish?[/QUOTE]

A software Lenovo made, heres more info on it:
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1452064[/url]

[Curls]

man, lenovo is fucked up

this is the best news ever since that happened too

[redBadger]

Get fucked.

[Deadoon]

I wonder what superfish's response to this will be. They are a legitimate company, just their software is exploitable as hell.

[sloppy_joes]

[QUOTE=deadoon;47338482]I wonder what superfish's response to this will be. They are a legitimate company, just their software is exploitable as hell.[/QUOTE]

It was just a terrible design choice, I wouldn't really say all their software is inherently exploitable, just that their management is stupid.

[SIRIUS]

wow... MSR doing something useful...

[Curls]

[QUOTE=SIRIUS;47338531]wow... MSR doing something useful...[/QUOTE]

MSR is there for those who aren't smart enough to get an AV, so it's certainly a good thing.

and I've really not heard anything truly bad about it that isn't blind hate