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: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday October 29 2015, @05:14AM
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
Not so much continues, as never ended, or even had a possibility of ending. This is what happens when you put a disc based operating system on a network-based system. Yes, Micro$oft is adapting, but it is so hard to make the transition from a toy desktop to an actual internet device. Mistakes will be made. And those mistakes will be exploited, but powers benign or not. Mostly not. So if you are running Windoze, prepare for a wild ride! If Micro$oft knows your passwords, it is only a matter of time until I know them. And the NSA, the Russian Mob, the Chinese Lost Boys Cyber-warfare Unit, and all the rest. Maybe even the Brits.