Da-Chief
07-21-2008, 14:21
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A security patch is only good if someone actually downloads and installs it. A post to the Google blog (http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/07/are-you-using-latest-web-browser.html) points to a new study (http://www.techzoom.net/publications/insecurity-iceberg/) that finds only 59.1% percent of Internet users worldwide use the latest major version of their preferred web browser with all the latest patches. Firefox users are the most attentive: with 92.2% of Firefox users using the latest version. Only 52.5% of Microsoft Internet Explorer users have updated to version 7. Of course this is in part thanks to Firefox's auto-update mechanism, which the paper suggests Microsoft needs to emulate.
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A security patch is only good if someone actually downloads and installs it. A post to the Google blog (http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/07/are-you-using-latest-web-browser.html) points to a new study (http://www.techzoom.net/publications/insecurity-iceberg/) that finds only 59.1% percent of Internet users worldwide use the latest major version of their preferred web browser with all the latest patches. Firefox users are the most attentive: with 92.2% of Firefox users using the latest version. Only 52.5% of Microsoft Internet Explorer users have updated to version 7. Of course this is in part thanks to Firefox's auto-update mechanism, which the paper suggests Microsoft needs to emulate.
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