“We recently updated the Microsoft Safety Scanner - a just-in-time, free cleanup tool. It’s important to note that customers that opt to use Microsoft Safety Scanner Security more than once need to also download it again and again, since the tool expires after 10 days. The Redmond company revealed that it’s very pleased with reaction to the Microsoft Safety Scanner, and that the results have been positive thus far. By the time a user downloads and runs MSS to detect malware, the machine may have already been infected, if it was vulnerable to the exploit at the time.” “Of course many of these detections by MSS are the debris or aftermath after the exploit has already executed. “Among the detections, 7 of the top 10 threats are files containing exploits for Java vulnerabilities such as CVE-2008-5353, CVE-2010-0094, CVE-2010-0840 and CVE-2009-3867,” Faulhaber said. The tool doesn’t offer real-time protection, but it’s available to users to run scans for malware whenever they have any suspicions that their Windows machines might be infected. It’s essentially an on-demand malware scanner which hunts down malicious code in concert with any other existing antivirus products. Microsoft Safety Scanner is designed as a very basic security solution. Kudos to these users for having security awareness.” It cleaned 20,097 infected computers in total, for users that suspected their computers were infected and downloaded MSS to scan their machines. “During the first seven days of the MSS release, there were close to 420,000 downloads, or 60,000 downloads per day, of the product. But Scott Wu and Joe Faulhaber, from MMPC, made sure to provide those to: Of course, download statistics are less relevant in terms of actual success compared to figures describing actual usage. Microsoft Safety Scanner was downloaded in excess of 420,000 times in the first week after launch, some 60,000 downloads per day, the software giant revealed. After Microsoft Security Essentials, a new free security solution from the Redmond company is apparently enjoying its fair share of success.
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