News: Microsoft publishes program to blast MSBlast:
"Microsoft released a removal tool for the MSBlast worm on Monday after Internet service providers complained that home users' PCs infected with the malicious program are still causing network congestion.

The MSBlast worm, also commonly called the Blaster worm, started spreading last August and is believed to have spread to hundreds of thousands of systems. While most corporations have cleaned up the worm, Microsoft has found that a large number of home users are still unknowingly infected, the software giant said in a statement. "

"For many users in this situation, there is little indication that they are infected other than possible performance degradation," Microsoft said. "And those infected are still actively transmitting the worm, causing Internet congestion in the process."

Microsoft's aim in releasing the latest tool is to reduce the amount of traffic being borne by ISPs by cleaning up a significant number of home computers.

The tool can be found on Microsoft's download site.



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