SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.

On Tuesday, Microsoft advocated fighting pernicious computer viruses with public health tactics used to stop the spread of SARS, H1N1 and other dangerous real world bugs.

An executive at Microsoft has suggested that computers infected with viruses that can potentially infect other PCs should be blocked from being able to access the Internet.

Some officials and computer security companies are arguing that the World Wide Web is battlefield in a “cyberwar” that has armies of hackers stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack the mainframe of many real world companies.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at RSA Conference 2010, Microsoft Corp. outlined how the company continues to make progress toward its End to End Trust vision.