Microsoft Malware Protection Center: Expired antimalware software is nearly as unsafe as having no protection at all

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msft-mmpc
12 Nov 2014

Analyzing data to find the root cause of infections has been a long-standing focus of the MMPC. One area we've been investigating is the correlation between endpoint protection and infection rates. Back in version 14 of the Security Intelligence Report (SIRv14), we first published data on infection rates for PCs protected with fully up-to-date antimalware software in comparison to those that either had no antimalware software or software that was not on or fully current. We discovered that PCs are 5.5 times more likely to be infected if they aren't protected with a fully up-to-date antimalware product.

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