Malware found on about 1 in 300 PCs
Microsoft Corp. is set to release research today 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 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. The software has been used to scan systems 2.7 billion times during this period, and on average, it finds something malicious about 0.32 percent of the time, or in one out of every 311 scans, according to Microsoft.
Full article and link: PC World
