MSRT August Top Detection Reports

For those of you interested in this kind of stuff, a list of the top ten Windows Malware has been posted today on Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center site. The article also lists the number of infected machines by country/region.

This month the MMPC added a new threat family, Win32/FakeRean, to the MSRT. You can refer to Hamish’s blog post, "Win32/FakeRean and MSRT" for more details on this fake, or rogue, security software. As of August 24, the MSRT had cleaned FakeRean from 162,328 infected machines.

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