During the launch of version 1.0 of its free Personal Software Inspector, which checks the status of security updates programs using a Windows computer, Secunia focused on information lift over 20 000 users.
Released on November 25, the product has already been downloaded 120 000 times. "If the results are not biased, we rejected those users who had already tested PSI beta," says on his blog a spokesman for society. The data were transmitted before PSI, which also helps users to install the necessary updates, does his work.
The reality is probably worse
The results of the study are cold in the back. It shows that only 1.91% of machines analyzed contain no software "vulnerable" (as they were properly "patched" by their owners). 30.2% of computers have between one and five unsecured, 25% of six to ten programs in the same case, and 45% more than eleven software vulnerable.
According to Secunia, the situation has worsened. Earlier this year, figures released showed that the machines' healthy 'was 4.5%. PCs with more than eleven software unsecure represented them, 41.9% of the total.
Incidentally, Secunia says that the reality is probably worse, because users of PSI are by definition a population already sensitive to issues of security.
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