ITworld: Microsoft goes back to blaming victims: Your malware problem is your fault

We get your point, Microsoft. You don't like customers. The software still has to be secure.

By Kevin Fogarty
October 12, 2011

A study released yesterday by Microsoft doesn't quite tell customers suffering from malware infections that they get what they deserve and should just leave it alone, but it comes darn close.

Zero-day vulnerabilities, viruses, poisoned web sites, Trojan horses, malware and other forms of cyberattack cost companies 56 percent more to deal with during 2011 than during 2010, an average of $5.9 million, according to an August study from Ponemon Institute.

All but a tiny fraction of that cost goes to preventing or recovering from malware infections, the Ponemon study revealed.

And all but about 1 percent of those attacks are your own fault, according to the newest version of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.

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