RSA 2010: Microsoft suggests quarantining botted PCs

By Dan Kaplan on Mar 3, 2010 2:47PM

Infected PCs like smokers.

One of Microsoft's leading security executives has said that consumers running infected PCs are like smokers exhaling chemicals to those around them. "You're not just accepting [the risk] yourself," Charney, corporate vice president for trustworthy computing, said during a morning ...

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