Internet Explorer 8’s SmartScreen Filter has delivered more than 70 million blocks in the first four months since IE8’s official release, for a cumulative total of 80 million blocks.

This data is a strong indication of the value of the protection SmartScreen provides, and of just how widespread socially-engineered malware attacks are on the web today.

The other key numbers announced in March are holding strong, even with a rapidly expanding user base:

- IE8 is delivering a malware block for approximately 1 out of 40 users every week.
- Approximately 1 of every 200 downloads is blocked as malicious

If you’re not running IE8’s SmartScreen Filter, you could be missing a key piece of protection to help ensure your safety on the Internet.

IE8 users can ensure that SmartScreen is enabled by clicking on the Safety button  and examining the SmartScreen Filter submenu. If a “Turn on SmartScreen Filter” item is present, click it to enable protection.

Source: IE Blog.

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