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Secunia: 28% of All Installed Applications Are Insecure

Ryan Naraine writes on the ZDNet 'Zero Day' Blog:

According to data culled from Secunia’s free software inspector, about 28% of all detected applications are vulnerable to a known security vulnerability.

The utility, which uses a signature database to pinpoint the specific versions of all installed programs (browsers, plugins, IM and e-mail clients, media players, operating systems) on a user’s computer, has conducted more than 350,000 inspections since December last year and the findings show exactly why we’re in the midst of a malware epidemic.

Secunia’s inspector identified about 4.9 million installed applications, and out of those, 1.4 million applications were found to be lacking critical security patches from the vendors.

posted by Fergie @ 5/16/2007 11:04:00 AM