Microsoft and Facebook Fighting Against Koobface
Microsoft is working with Facebook to free it from a virus called “Koobface”. In past two weeks MSRT has removed 20,000 variations from more than 133,600 computers around the world. Koobface, Koobface was first surfaced in May 2008, spreads by delivering fraudulent messages from people whose computers have been infected. Facebook security experts were able to detect the threat on Facebook and reset the people’s Facebook accounts.
MSRT team successfully added Koobface detection mechanism.
Jeff Williams, principal group program manager for the MRST Said
In working with Facebook, we were able to add detection of Koobface to our Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which checks computers running Windows software to detect and remove viruses. By adding this threat to the more than 100 threat families already in MSRT, we’re helping to protect hundreds of millions of people. Since releasing our newest version of MSRT two weeks ago, we’ve removed Koobface nearly 200,000 times from over 133,677 computers in more than 140 different locales around the world.
