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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the there-are-bigger-risks???? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:01AM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:01AM (#255815) Journal

    Came here to say the same thing.

    Either everyone had selected a different PDF reader, and photo editor or the survey must be flawed.

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:57AM

    by tftp (806) on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:57AM (#255836) Homepage

    Either everyone had selected a different PDF reader, and photo editor or the survey must be flawed.

    Can't say about everyone, but I haven't touched Acrobat Reader since version 9. That was many years ago. Today I'm using Foxit Reader on Windows. There are several on Android. There is no Photoshop on this PC; Paint.Net is all that I need.

  • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Thursday October 29 2015, @03:29AM

    by Celestial (4891) on Thursday October 29 2015, @03:29AM (#255871) Journal

    I haven't used Adobe anything for a few years. For PDFs, I use PDF-XChange Viewer. For photographs, Paint.Net is more than sufficient for my needs.