Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious

alphadogg writes "About one out of every 14 programs downloaded by Windows users turns out to be malicious, Microsoft said Tuesday. And even though Microsoft has a feature in its Internet Explorer browser designed to steer users away from unknown and potentially untrustworthy software, about 5% of users ignore the warnings and download malicious Trojan horse programs anyway. IE also warns users when they're being tricked into visiting malicious websites, another way that social-engineering hackers can infect computer users. In the past two years, IE's SmartScreen has blocked more than 1.5 billion Web and download attacks, according to Jeb Haber, program manager lead for SmartScreen."

Comments

"Malicious"

[Anonymous Coward]

On the list of malicious files, as determined by the Microsoft Corporation:

- Google Chrome
- ubuntulinux.iso
- antivirusotherthansecurityessentials.exe
- iTunes
- *ipod*.exe
- gmail.com/index.html

Here is the list of top 5 malicious Downloads.

[LWATCDR]

1. Ubuntu
2. Firefox
3. Chrome
4. OpenOffice
5. VLC

Re:Here is the list of top 5 malicious Downloads.

[Anonymous Coward]

Call an engineer. The sense of humor module on the vistapwns bot has crashed again.

Really?

[Random2]

I didn't realize IE was downloaded so frequently.

Re:NEWSFLASH: Some People are Terminally Ignorant

[h4rr4r]

I had a boss once drive in circles in the parking lot with the hood up, to cool an over heating engine.

The proposed solution,

[HeckRuler]

Is to block every 14th download, thus making Windows malware free!