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posted by chromas on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the Alt-right-plot-to-rule-the-world-through-Windows-exploitables dept.

This was just too funny not to submit. Do you not have the latest keyboard-logging Windows 10 on your, um computer? Not your computer, you know. But now, it turns out, according to the formerly great tech journal ZDNet, you are at risk! "Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!"

But, wait for it, only if you run Windows.

Over half of applications installed on Windows PCs are out-of-date, potentially putting the security of users at risk through flaws in software that have already been patched by vendors.

Around 55 percent of software installed on PCs across the globe is in the form of an older version of the application, according to research by security company Avast — and that number has risen from 48 percent in their previous report.

Based upon anonyimized[sic] and aggregated data from 163 million devices around the world, Avast's PC trends report also suggests that almost one in six Windows 7 users and one in ten Windows 10 users are running out-of-date versions of their operating system, also leaving them open to exploitation of system-level security vulnerabilities.

Some of the programs most commonly left out-of-date include Adobe Shockwave, VLC Media Player, Skype, Java Runtime Environment, and 7-Zip Filemanager.

Putting off installing updates and running outdated applications can cause bugs and incompatibility problems for users, but more significantly, running out-of-date software can provide an open door for hackers to take advantage of holes left in programs that haven't had critical security updates applied.

Well, there it is. If you run Windows, you are running a security risk. Funny they would think how current your capitulation to the "Dark Side" is would make any difference. But on the other hand, the advice in general is good, just do not run anything out of Redmond, where the Dark Lord rules, and keep up to date on security patches. Except on my Android Phone. They ask me to do security upgrades, and I think, "Why?" I cannot remove the goddamned bloat-ware they put on goddamned thing, and they want me to approve upgrades? Hell no! I will rot in hell with my aging Android phone, with a version of Android nearly as old as I am, because the bastards will not allow me to upgrade to a more current version!

If Linux did shit like this, systemd aside, I would be BSD all the way. Sorry, too much commentary for a submission. But, really? Am I wrong?

P.S. When exactly did ZDNet take the tumble? Does anyone remember? Was it with the review of the new Microsoft Disk Compression Utility?


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:32AM (10 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:32AM (#790523) Journal

    Frost Pist: As a general rule, I try not to comment, at least under my own username, on my own submissions. Second, I have not run Windows since Win95, when I was Blue Screened to Death. So have fun, Soylentils! On Piste!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:45AM (8 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:45AM (#790529) Journal

    Frost Pist:

    Yau foiled on this part.

    As a general rule, I try not to comment, at least under my own username, on my own submissions.

    You failed on this part, too.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @09:00AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @09:00AM (#790532)

      Yao [wikipedia.org] foiled, but did Shun [wikipedia.org]? If I were the alleged aristarchus [wikipedia.org], posting as an AC [slashdot.org], in what sense would warning others be a foil [youtube.com]?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @10:32AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @10:32AM (#790555)

      Give artichokes a break. He isn't very good posting or submitting. Maybe he should try the "not posting" thing on all posts.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:12PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:12PM (#790574)

        It's a Windows aggravation thingy. Kind of like when you forget to close a window in your house and Ethanolfueled crawls in and drinks your stash of baileys.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:15PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:15PM (#790575)

          What? Ethanol-fueled does that shit? That's another reason to lock my windows.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:52PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:52PM (#791776)

            Naaah leave a bottle on the bench put a bear trap on the floor and let the problem take care of itself

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:20PM

        by looorg (578) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @12:20PM (#790577)

        I didn't even notice it was Arti, where is all the alt-right conspiracies and Nazis? The post is clearly lacking in content for it being a proper post.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 23 2019, @05:07PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @05:07PM (#790680) Journal

        He's one king hell mountain of a lot better than at least 1/3 of the commentariat here, especially when he's not trolling. I'd rather read a threadfull of Aristarchus replies than more of VLM's "scientific" racism or Runaway's delusional paranoid ranting or jmorris's...jmorris-ing.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 23 2019, @06:33PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 23 2019, @06:33PM (#790736) Journal

    I try not to comment, at least under my own username, on my own submissions.

    Why?

    If you saved the editorializing for the comments you'd probably get more stories accepted....