98 percent windows PCs vulnerable

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 08 December 2008, 22:41 IST   |    1 Comments
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New Delhi: 98 percent of windows computers have been found to run at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programmes at risk from attack, according to Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. It further stated that 98.1 percent of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. Only 1.9 percent of windows systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time had no out-of-date programmes. The study done on 20,000 users also revealed that about a third of the systems ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programmes, while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.