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Microsoft Releases Malicious Software Removal Tool

Posted by michael on from the now-everything's-all-better dept.

DaHat writes "Hot on the heels of their release last week of Microsoft AntiSpyware, Microsoft today released their very own Malicious Software Removal Tool with the claim that it will detect and remove infections from specific pieces of malware, including those in the families of Berbew, Doomjuice, Gaobot, Msblast, Mydoom, Nachi, Sassier, and Zindos from your Windows 2000, XP or 2003 machine. Microsoft also promises to release an updated version of the tool on the second Tuesday of each month."

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  1. FP mfers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FIRST PROST MUTHAFUCKAS

  2. Nobody's saying it by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft is using their OS dominance to crush another market for their bottom line. When this tool gains 95% market share because it's packaged with the OS, who will be able to sell a virus scanner?

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  3. Re:obPost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like Windows XP Home Edition.

    It is the most powerful operating-system for Pee Cees. It looks not as gay as Mac OS X by Steve B10 Jobs and has 1,0000,0000 times more softwares that the Linus-operating-system.

    Plus, it comes with every Pee Cee for free. People who have grown acusstomt to paying RatHat 699 $$$ or more can hardly beleive this when I consult them with my proffesional Internet- and Network-Service-Center-Bureau.

    I always tell them:
    "Windows XP Home Edition is all you can empower to leverage the outcome-bottomlime of your stickholder ... plus even more!"

    My customers usually are like: "OMG!"

    You should really try it one day; it has a very nice light-reddish color theme to hit your tastes.

    Thank you!

  4. Re:Cant stand compition? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fortuately, yes.

    That's why I always refer to the Mozilla suite as "fucking gay communist bullshit", especially when one of my employees suggests uses it unauthorized (luckily, I hav surveillance-tools installed on every machine, in case someone does something private during her working time). I mean, Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols, so why change it? I credit the efforts of the former Netscape employees who really try to use their time of unemployment to create something useful, but they just keep on missing the needs of their target audience. Perhaps Netscape could provide them with their newest code instead of letting them just reuse their obsolete Netscape 4.x code. Who knows.

    This leaves us waiting for Windows Longhorn, which will once again set a new standard in productivity.

  5. Is this how they fight Firefox? by GweeDo · · Score: 1, Troll

    As microsoft pushes more and more of their crap like this to using ActiveX will it be used as a way to hinder the usage of Firefox? For me I don't really care if I have to load 1-2 webpages in IE, but for some "average" users this could be a real bother.

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  6. Re:...and other grammatical anomalies by the+angry+liberal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, this might be seriously unfunny in the near future. If MS takes a hardline against open source or GPL licensed stuff, or make they claim that any particular app in using infringing code, a lot of slashdotters might be saying "I told you so".

    So you *REALLY* think this?

    When does the short bus get here?