Hi, I'm Sterling Reasor, a program manager for the current Windows AntiSpyware beta and forth-coming Windows Defender. A few days ago we posted an update to the Windows AntiSpyware beta and yesterday, we turned on the auto-updater code to automatically...

Hi, we are Eric Allred and Ziv Mador, response coordinators for the anti-malware technology team. We have analyzed several versions of the rootkit that have been shipped as part of Sony’s XCP software. We are calling the family WinNT/F4IRootkit. We...

I've been getting a lot of questions in the last week about Microsoft's position on the Sony DRM and rootkit discussions, so I thought I'd share a little info on what we're doing here. We are concerned about any malware and its impact on our customers...

Every week seems like a big week for us in the engineering team working on our anti-malware technology. However, last week was especially important in a sentimental way. We got the final name for the cool technology our team has been developing for Windows...

Hi all, my name is Matthew Braverman and I'm a program manager on the anti-malware technology team at Microsoft. On Tuesday, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie introduced the new Windows Live and Office Live services . One of the highlights of this launch was...

Welcome! This is the team blog for the Anti-Malware product team. We're the team responsible for building Microsoft's antivirus and anti-spyware technology (along with anti-rootkit, anti-bot, and other stuff). We setup this blog some time back, but have...