PC World posted a news story that Microsoft is calling for a collective health policy to certify a computer's health and restrict the Internet access of PCs infected with malware.

Now Microsoft is arguing that the security community needs to develop a collective health policy to restrict sick PCs -- those infected with malware -- from connecting to the Internet.

"Just as when an individual who is not vaccinated puts others' health at risk, computers that are not protected or have been compromised with a bot put others at risk and pose a greater threat to society," Scott Charney, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing, says in a blog post published Tuesday.

  Microsoft Wants Sick PCs Banned From the Internet