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Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program | |
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| Time: 00:02 EST/05:02 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Sobering stats from Secunia. Out of a random sampling of 20,000 systems, a whopping 98.09% have one or more insecure program installed. The total number of PCs/users included in these numbers are 20,000, out of these 98.09% have 1 or more insecure programs installed on their PC, hence: 98 out of 100 PCs that are connected to the Internet have insecure programs installed! It gets worse - nearly half of all Windows systems have eleven or more insecure programs installed. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (74.84.87.66) at 12/4/2008 10:40:03 AM |
| Define "insecure program". With the release of Jave 6 update 11, is Java 6 update 10 now "insecure"? |
| #2 By 92283 (70.67.2.125) at 12/4/2008 12:04:20 PM |
| #1 Of course it is. Thats the definition. |
| #3 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at 12/4/2008 12:49:37 PM |
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Um... aren't all programs "insecure"? They all have vulnerabilities waiting to be found, right?
("insecure"--sounds like they have an inferiority complex or something....) |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 12/4/2008 1:21:53 PM |
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Well, come on, guys. Doesn't every version of Windows come with Internet Explorer?...
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| #5 By 82766 (211.26.160.18) at 12/4/2008 8:10:50 PM |
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and doesn't every one install Adobe Reader, Java VM, RealPlayer, iTunes, Safari, Firefox, etc...
ALL of these programs have known and published security holes... unless they're fixed. And then we wait for other security holes to be found. |
| #6 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 12/4/2008 8:49:42 PM |
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Speaking of Firefox -
http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/NW900-uk--BitDefender-detects-novel-approach-to-stealing-web-passwords.html |
| #7 By 143 (96.28.66.94) at 12/5/2008 4:27:35 AM |
| The most insecure part of a PC is the user. |
| #8 By 143 (96.28.66.94) at 12/5/2008 4:27:45 AM |
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*This site still gives me errors when posting* This post was edited by donpacman on Friday, December 05, 2008 at 04:31. |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 12/5/2008 12:29:26 PM |
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#6: Good God, man! You've caught the parkkker misdirection flu!
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| #10 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 12/5/2008 12:46:44 PM |
| Yeah, I can see how providing a link to a current article with direct relevancy to this thread's topic could be construed as misdirection. |
| #11 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 12/5/2008 12:53:07 PM |
| still rolling eyes... |
| #12 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 12/5/2008 2:16:56 PM |
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#10: I thought you were doing it to counter my hilarious yet topical mention of IE. I'm just so used to seeing parkkker do it.
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| #13 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 12/5/2008 3:36:16 PM |
| Secunia is just trolling for customers. They have a web scan, personal scan, and network scan version of their NSI scanning software. The latter is at cost; the others are free. The information on them is here: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/ . |
| #14 By 23275 (71.91.9.16) at 12/6/2008 10:14:13 AM |
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Welcome to today, Latch - the old, tired and now irrelevant "IE is not secure" line immediatly dates, and casts anyone using it.
By a very wide margin (let us debate it any time you wish) the most secure online experience is found on Windows Vista x64 running IE 7 in its default protected mode. I've shared the path many times - the components in the armor belt are well documented. MS moved forward; it advanced and it leads all others in balancing security with a great user experience - on and off-line. It's worth the time to discuss it. |
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