From PC World: Microsoft says the Superfish adware that potentially exposed thousands of Lenovo PCs to man-in-the-middle attacks is well under control.
To battle the Superfish scourge, Microsoft added automated detection of the adware to its real-time protection products, such as Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials. The company said in a blog post that it also shared Superfish detection data with its partners to further expand the Superfish cleanup, as Computerworld first reported.
Microsoft didn’t release a specific count for the number of PCs rid of Superfish. But based on a graph the company published, it appears around 250,000 PCs had Superfish removed via the Microsoft-led effort.
At its peak around February 21—two days after the Superfish news broke—Superfish removals per day stood at 60,000. As of March 4, the number of daily removals was in the hundreds.
Microsoft’s security tools were one of several methods that removed Superfish. Lenovo released its own Superfish removal tool, McAfee added Superfish removal to its security products, and we also reported on a manual method for removing the adware.
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