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The update jungle: PC owners have to watch 24 sources for fixes

Zoom 71% of vulnerablities on an average PC lurk within third-party software.
Source: Secunia The average UK computer user has to keep their eye on 24 different update mechanisms to keep their PC up to date. That's the result that comes from Secunia's latest Security ReportPDF for the UK which looked at the state of security and the software installed on computer systems. Suffering from one of the worst offenders in terms of lacking updates were the 16% of users who had Adobe Flash Player 10.x installed on their systems; 88% of them were running unpatched versions. 90% of the users in Secunia's survey were running Flash Player 11.x and things were somewhat better there with only 14% being unpatched. Although open source applications are patched quickly, getting those patches to users also proved difficult.