A Microsoft executive has stated that governments should deal with infected computers the same way they would handle any highly infectious disease.

"Speaking to the RSA security conference, Scott Charney, Microsoft's corporate vice president of 'trustworthy computing', said that the health care model of quarantining infected PCs was jolly effective," writes The Inquirer's Nick Farrell. "Charney said that infected computers should be kept off the Internet just like doctors quarantine sick people."

"Of course, users removing Microsoft software from their PCs, which hosts 99 per cent of known malware including botnets, would also solve the problem, but naturally Charney didn't mention that," Farrell writes.

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