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Microsoft is trying to stamp out the Koobface worm, which has spread aggressively on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company said Tuesday. In a post to the company's malware protection center blog, researcher Scott Molenkamp said that definitions for Koobface have been added to the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the free anti-malware utility that Microsoft automatically delivers every month to users on Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft puts the kibosh on Koobface worm

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Perhaps as many as 10 million PCs are infected with sneaky programs designed to steal sensitive financial information, anti-virus vendor Panda Security reports.The company found that just over 1 percent of systems belonging to the 67 million people who tried out its free ActiveScan test site last year were infected with malicious software designed to help thieves steal sensitive information about victims. If 1 percent of the world's 1 billion computers are infected, that would mean that this kind of software is on 10 million PCs worldwide, the company reports.

Anti-virus vendor: ID theft Trojans on 1 in 100 PCs

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InfoWorld reports that Trend Micro said that it had spotted the first attack taking advantage on an IE flaw that was patched by Microsoft last week