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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @08:43AM
About f... time, considering that anyone that cares even a tiny bit about security has recommended getting rid of Java (plugin) for at least ten years.
I am not a security researcher, and even I realized a looong time ago how insecure Java was (and still is). As a result, I removed the Java plugin, with the result that I could no longer use Map24 (which was using Java at the time). Thankfully, a year or two later, something called Google maps was launched, that used Javascript (which has nothing to do with Java). THAT's how long it's taken to get rid of Java.
Though I would think that Adobe (Flash and Reader) were still the worst. Apple must have been really busy introducing security holes to beat those two.