Aaaugh! 1 in 5 U.S. Windows PCs Lack Antivirus Defenses



Un-friggin-believable but true. Don't be one of them! Gregg Keizer at ComputerWorld was the first with this story. "Nearly a fifth of Windows PCs in the U.S. lack any active security protection, an antivirus vendor said today, citing numbers from a year-long project. "The scale of this is unprecedented," argued Gary Davis, the director of global consumer product marketing for McAfee, talking about the scope of his company's sampling of PC security.



McAfee took measurements from scans of more than 280 million PCs over the last 12 months, and found that 19.3% of all U.S. Windows computers browsed the Web sans security software. Owners of those systems downloaded and used McAfee's free Security Scan Plus, a tool that checks for antivirus programs and enabled firewalls. Here is the full article:




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