400,000 PCs Infected with Fake ‘Antivirus 2009? Software, says Microsoft

The second month of Microsoft’s campaign against fake security software has resulted in the removal of the rogue Antivirus 2009 application from almost 400,000 infected PCs. Microsoft claims that December’s version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool — the free utility included in Windows Update every month — specifically targeted Antivirus 2009. According to Microsoft, MSRT removed the rogue application from over 394,000 PCs in the first nine days after it was released on 9 December