Well, who would have thought that the king of software would be bothered by anything as low as malware? But he is. Read on…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says he’s never had a computer virus, but that adware and malware have him ticked off enough that Microsoft plans to do something about them. Precisely what that might be Gates didn’t say, although the figure “hundreds of millions” of dollars was mentioned.

Speaking Friday at the Computer History Museum here, Gates said the industry is “halfway to solving spam,” with good filtering available but the message authentication piece remaining to be solved. “