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Title: Windows users often forget to patch their Apple programs Post by: HCK on October 29, 2015, 03:00:14 am Windows users often forget to patch their Apple programs
<article> <section class="page"> <p>A survey of applications installed on Windows computers found that a lot of users don’t run up-to-date versions of Apple programs.</p><p>Apple’s multimedia program, QuickTime, and its iTunes software were ranked as some of the most “exposed” programs based on risk by Secunia Research, which is now part of Flexera Software.</p><p>Among U.S. users, some 61 percent of computers detected running QuickTime did not have the latest version. With iTunes, 47 percent of the installations were outdated versions.</p><p>It’s not Apple’s fault. Although many software companies alert users to new versions of applications, it’s largely up to users to install them.</p><p>The data was collected between October 2014 through last month from computers running Flexera’s Personal Software Inspector (https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/), a free tool that checks if all applications are up to date. About 8 million computers have the tool installed.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2998210/security/windows-users-often-forget-to-patch-their-apple-programs.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Windows users often forget to patch their Apple programs (http://www.macworld.com/article/2998210/security/windows-users-often-forget-to-patch-their-apple-programs.html#tk.rss_all) |