Microsoft Relesease BlackWorm Anti-Malware Removal Tool After D-Day?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Huh?

Well, this just doesn't make ANY sense, given that the
payload trigger for the BlackWorm worm is 3 February 2006.

Via the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team Blog:

[snip]

Microsoft releases a new version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool every month on the second Tuesday of 
the month together with the other security updates. The next version, targeted for release on February 14th will detect 
and remove this worm. Also, the beta version of Windows OneCare Live protects against this threat. It can be obtained 
here: http://www.windowsonecare.com.

[snip]

http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2006/01/26/418190.aspx

What's up with that?

- ferg

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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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