For every 300 PCs, 1 houses malware
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft is set to release research on Monday showing, among other things, that its security tools find malicious software on about 1 in every 311 times it scans a PC.
The research is part of a major report on security trends that Microsoft plans to release Monday at its TechEd user conference in Boston.
Microsoft's data is remarkable because it comes from such a large sample group, the more than 270 million users of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which ships with Windows.
Between January 2005 and March 2006, this tool was used to remove 16 million pieces of malware from 5.7 million computers.