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.Microsoft Wants Sick PCs Banned From 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.
