Malware

Wow. Microsoft claims to have ridden the world of 16 million instances of malicious software from 5.7 million unique Windows computers over the past 15 months using its malicious software removal tool (that installs automatically each week with the new patches that most computers automatically install).

I usually have very little positive to say about M$, but this is a good thing. If you let your computer be overrun by viruses (not relevant here) and other malware, you are hurting everyone by letting your computer be turned into a spam or virus bot, not to mention how much poorer your computer runs if you don't take the time to make sure you know what's running.

The amazing thing about the statistic, of course, isn't just the number but the fact that those 16 million instances are coming from only 5.7 million computers. Some people are repeatedly allowing their machines to get infested, so we can't just rely on M$ to get this crap off of computers but must get people to stop letting their computers get infested in the first place.

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