Well, tomorrow is the 3rd. The payload trigger for CME-24.
As it stands right now - India, Peru, Italy and Turkey will be hit harder than the US.
On Jan 27th, I blogged about how Microsoft's was not going to release an updated Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool before "D-Day". They stated this again on Jan 30th in this Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog, but they do remind us that the Windows Live Safety Center Beta will remove the threat.
They could had just said - "Yeah, we can save some of you, like we did for Zotob, but we really need you to test our new beta products - Safety Center and OneCare. Thanks".
I agree that Safety Center is a great free website. I will all my friends about it. It provides much more than just malware removal as well. Microsoft created it and they did a very good job.
But why not take the extra step while there was still time?
Remember they rushed out a new version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool in August for the Zotob worm. Why not now? It is true that 300,000 people isn't anywhere near the numbers that could have been attacked by Zotob, but still.
Why not now? Microsoft, please tell me it isn't to get people on your beta programs...please...get me something. Anything.
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