Yep, There’s a Patch for That

Summary: A Secunia study of data from more than two million users of its free Personal Software Inspector tool found the average Windows PC carries software from 22 vendors and needs a new security update roughly every five days. Secunia research analyst director Stefan Frei said about 50 percent of PSI users have more than 66 installed programs, and called the resulting patch burden 'doomed to fail.'
What you should know: Twenty-two vendors means twenty-two separate update mechanisms to master, and Frei's own verdict is that this is doomed to fail - the gap that drive-by downloads target in third-party software like Flash and Adobe Reader.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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