The Microsoft Malware Protection Team which is responsible for the Malicious Software Removal Tool running each month during Windows-Update) reports that this month they added detection and removal of some worm types targeting online game passwords. And they found some:

“After its first day in MSRT, Taterf components had been removed from over 700,000 machines! For comparison, Win32/Nuwar (aka ‘Storm worm’) was removed from less than half that in its first month.”

After one week over 1.2 million machines had been disinfected. Mind-boggling

[Original post on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008. Repost Wednesday, June 25th after web site database problem]