One in fourteen Internet downloads is Windows malware

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

“Window PCs has far, far more malware trouble than Macs, and I
can�t resist mentioning that after in
twenty-years of Linux, we�ve seen a real-world
example of Linux malware�not counting the
Android malware mess. Ironically, these latest appalling Windows
malware numbers are shared in a Microsoft blog about how well
SmartScreen Application Reputation is working in IE9.

“While it�s true that SmartScreen in IE9 is
doing excellent work in protecting Windows users form
Internet-borne malware, it leads to other questions. The biggest,
to my mind, is that, since Microsoft proudly boasts that
IE9�s new ‘Application Reputation will prevent
more than 20 Million additional infections per month (on top of
existing SmartScreen URL reputation blocks),’ why
doesn�t Microsoft offer IE9 to its XP
users?”

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