Or so El Reg is telling us:
Apple's Windows apps have leapfrogged Oracle Java as the biggest security risk to PCs in the US, according to a study by vulnerability management outfit Secunia (now a Flexera Software company). [...]
Secunia's latest quarterly report, seen by The Reg, is a snapshot of software security on PCs used by folks in the US and 14 other countries. For the first time in four consecutive quarters, Java 7 isn't topping the list of most dangerous programs: Apple apps have taken the lead in the third quarter of 2015. [...]
Apple QuickTime 7.x and Apple iTunes 12.x top the list as the most exposed applications on US Windows PCs – a lot of people use them and not a lot of people are patching, in other words.
I thought the greatest risk to Windows PC users was the fact that Windows is installed on it. This seems to continue with Windows 10 according to this story also from El Reg.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:41PM
I thought the greatest risk is Microsoft Windows Updates. Consider, Windows Updates are known to add telemetry (privacy infringing features) and brick your OS and hardware (for example, the fake USB driver brick a long time ago), and recent events have shown that updates have very little auditing before getting pushed, if any. Even a security conscious individual is vulnerable to a stray update screwing up something.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @10:18AM