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Funny how when they were pushing SmartScreen their statistics lumped so much into what they considered "Social Engineering."

 

What about the social engineering involved in getting people to these sites?

 

That's my point. Most attacks have some element of both - people aren't just hacked, they have to end up on a webpage somehow (or they don't have ot, but typically are) and at that point an exploit takes over.

With the SmartScreen stats they reported most infections being due primarily to social engineering. Almost every other report has shown that there's a ton of vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.