According to Chester Wisniewski, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, Microsofts statistics relating to the SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9 just dont really add up.



From Hardware 2.0:

According to Wisniewski, ‘Microsoft is comparing apples to … nothing’ because SmartScreen doesn’t protect users from exploits using technologies such as Adobe Reader, iTunes, Real Player, Adobe Flash, and Java from downloading exploits, and Microsoft has offered up no statistics relating on how often these are used.

  Sophos: 'Microsoft is comparing apples to nothing'