If you’re using Windows, you probably have heard of Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). It is a quality antivirus solution to be delivered to the Windows PCs as part of the Automatic Updates package each month.

A good news is that now it’s more safer to use Windows-based PCs to access Facebook as Koobface, a
particularly nasty virus have been included as one of the major virus and worm families being added to the MSRT.

“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.” Jeff Williams, a Principal Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, wrote in a guest post on the Facebook blog.

Meanwhile, the MSRT has also removed Koobface nearly 200,000 times from over 133,677 computers in more than 140 different locales around the world in just two weeks, he wrote.

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