Microsoft is claimed to have spotted 22 million adware and spyware programs in Windows machines, bringing about almost 14 million removals, within the first three months after announcing the deliverance of the Windows Defender Beta 2 anti-spyware suite.
As per the statistics brought forth by the Redmond, Wash., firm, over 60 % of Windows Defender users have gone for removing the ad-serving programs while given a choice.
In a comprehensive report brought forth on Oct. 24 at RSA Conference Europe in Nice, France, Microsoft provided the first indication of the degree of the adware and spyware risk on Windows machines, making use of detection and removal data out of Windows Defender & the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner, two freely available tools.
In the course of April 11 to June 30, Windows Defender quarantined 2,849 exclusive families of “potentially unwanted software,’ which are included with adware, spyware, Trojan downloaders, setting modifiers and P2P (peer-to-peer) software bundlers.
