{"id":842,"date":"2006-06-14T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/backdoors-bots-biggest-threats-to-windows\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:49","slug":"backdoors-bots-biggest-threats-to-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/06\/14\/backdoors-bots-biggest-threats-to-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Backdoors, Bots Biggest Threats To Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?616\">TechWeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Backdoor Trojans are a clear and present danger to Windows machines, Microsoft said Monday as it released the first-ever analysis of data collected by the 15-month run of its  Malicious Software Removal Tool, a utility that seeks out and destroys over five-dozen malware families.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft&#8217;s anti-malware engineering team, Trojans that, once installed, give an attacker access and control of a PC, are a &#8220;significant and tangible threat to Windows users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 5.7 million unique PCs from which the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has deleted malware, 3.5 million of them &#8212; 62 percent &#8212; had at least one backdoor Trojan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechWeb: Backdoor Trojans are a clear and present danger to Windows machines, Microsoft said Monday as it released the first-ever analysis of data collected by the 15-month run of its Malicious Software Removal Tool, a utility that seeks out and destroys over five-dozen malware families. According to Microsoft&#8217;s anti-malware engineering team, Trojans that, once &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}