"According to the Microsoft Malware Prevention Center (MMPC), this month's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has scrubbed the Alureon rootkit from over 360,000 Windows PCs since its May 11 release. That represented 18.2% of all MSRT detections for the month, more than double the 8.3% the rootkit accounted for in Apr"
"Almost two-thirds (65%) of the PCs infected with Alureon this month were running Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), with the No. 2 spot taken by Windows XP SP2 (14%). Only 3.5% of the rootkit-infected PCs were running Windows 7, said Microsoft."
Have to give Microsoft credit for not giving up on this. The longer this problem persists, the longer these machines stay vulnerable. They are aiming at an unpredictable, moving target though.
