One out of every 14 programs downloaded is malware, Microsoft reported in a blog post on Wednesday. Application Reputation mechanism in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft noted that IE blocks between 2 and 5 million attacks a day for IE8 and IE9 customers…PC Magazine has more news on this. Social-engineering attacks, like tricking a user into running a malicious program, are far more common than attacks on security vulnerabilities. Application Reputation in IE9 helps protect users from these socially engineered malware attacks. Please click here to read this article from MSDN blog
