Good article about the Malicious Tool Remover software from Microsoft...the one items below even states how much more difficult it is to filter on an Email Exchange server these days as well...opens up the thought process for 'hosted exchange" to have the latest software available in the war against malware, especially with medical and patient information potential on the network and a good reason to train and inform employees of what to look for in unknown emails...it keeps changing colors all the time. BD
During the first half of 2007, Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool detected 31.6 million phishing scams,an increase of more than 150 percent over the previous six months and tracked a 500 percent increase in Trojan downloaders and droppers, according to the company's latest Security Intelligence Report. The report, produced every six months, this time around found far more attacks that are focused on stealing personal information, including Trojan downloaders and droppers malicious code that installs Trojans, password stealers, keyboard loggers and/or other malware on victims' systems.
MSRT removed malware from one out of every 217 computers it scanned in early 2007, compared with one out of 409 in late 2006 and one out of 359 in the second half of 2005. Microsoft said the increases are likely due to improvements in MSRT along with the addition of highly prevalent families, such as Win32/Renos, Win32/Stration and Win32/Alureon. Some families MSRT has detected—Win32/Hupigon, Win32/Bancos and Win32/Banker—target data theft and banking information.
"It also doesn't matter," he said in an e-mail exchange. "It's so bad now that those that can't filter and manage it to a reasonable level can't effectively use e-mail anymore anyway."
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