Hot damn! Microsoft’s Anti-Malware Engineering Team is on the ball:
We are concerned about any malware and its impact on our customers’ machines. Rootkits have a clearly negative impact on not only the security, but also the reliability and performance of their systems.
We use a set of objective criteria for both Windows Defender and the Malicious Software Removal Tool to determine what software will be classified for detection and removal by our anti-malware technology. We have analyzed this software, and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the rootkit component of the XCP software to the Windows AntiSpyware beta, which is currently used by millions of users. This signature will be available to current beta users through the normal Windows AntiSpyware beta signature update process, which has been providing weekly signature updates for almost a year now. Detection and removal of this rootkit component will also appear in Windows Defender when its first public beta is available. We also plan to include this signature in the December monthly update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool. It will also be included in the signature set for the online scanner on Windows Live Safety Center.
That was fast! I hope my request from last week was at least partially responsible.
Ed Bott 
I don’t know whether this makes a difference or not, but, I downloaded the Windows Live Safety Scanner todoy and ran the scan only to find out that all was well with the world and my computer. The only thing that it found was some temporary internet files to which the scanner deleted. The only thing is that you have to go back to the website to do another scan, but that is small beans compared to the length of time the scanner takes to work it’s magic, just over an hour. So in summary, I just hope that Microsoft can shorten the time of the scan as well as tell the user who made the scanner and a place to which a user could air their comments, so that they are taken on board so that they (Microsoft) can improve the scanner. At present it is just as slow as Norton which also could be improved on to say the very least.