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IE8 reaches 80 million malware blocks
New filtering technology shows the exent of socially engineered malware
Phil Muncaster
V3.co.uk, 14 Aug 2009
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) delivered more than 70 million blocks of malware in the past four months, highlighting just how widespread socially engineered malware attacks are today, according to new findings.
Writing on the IE blog yesterday, Microsoft IE program manager Eric Lawrence said that combined witht the efforts of the pre-release version, the cumulative total for IE's SmartScreen Filter is now 80 million malware blocks.
He added that IE8 is delivering a malware block for approximately 1 out of 40 users every week, with approximately 1 of every 200 downloads being blocked as malicious
Internet Explorer 7 and IE8 also contain a Phishing Filter, which has allowed Microsoft to gain insight into the prevalence of this kind of attack on its users.
More to read:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247880/ie8-ca...million-malware
New filtering technology shows the exent of socially engineered malware
Phil Muncaster
V3.co.uk, 14 Aug 2009
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) delivered more than 70 million blocks of malware in the past four months, highlighting just how widespread socially engineered malware attacks are today, according to new findings.
Writing on the IE blog yesterday, Microsoft IE program manager Eric Lawrence said that combined witht the efforts of the pre-release version, the cumulative total for IE's SmartScreen Filter is now 80 million malware blocks.
He added that IE8 is delivering a malware block for approximately 1 out of 40 users every week, with approximately 1 of every 200 downloads being blocked as malicious
Internet Explorer 7 and IE8 also contain a Phishing Filter, which has allowed Microsoft to gain insight into the prevalence of this kind of attack on its users.
More to read:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2247880/ie8-ca...million-malware