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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) provides world class antimalware research and response capabilities that support Microsoft's range of security products and services. With laboratories in multiple locations around the globe the MMPC is able to respond quickly and effectively to new malicious and potentially unwanted software threats wherever and whenever they arise.

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	Are you from an Internet cafe? In a previous blog, I mentioned a family of malware named Dogrobot, which attempts to penetrate the protection offered by particular hardware that is widely used in Internet cafes in China. Interestingly, we recently discovered a trojan, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Chekafe.A, that checks whether an affected machine is in an Internet cafe or not. If the affected machine is not from an Internet cafe , it sends the MAC address of the affected machine to a remote server. Read the full story on the blog


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