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displaysearch.com - 12/8/2008

Strong Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Buoy Notebook PC Market in Q3’08; Tier One Product Launches ...

— displaysearch.com — Strong Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Buoy Notebook PC Market in Q3’08; Tier One Product Launches Propel Growth Sort... Date: 12082008 AUSTIN, TEXAS, December 8, 2008 —Despite what is looking to be a rather dismal fourth quarter for the PC industry as a ... (more) Strong Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Buoy Notebook PC ...

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microsoft.com - 12/1/2008

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computerworld.com - 12/1/2008

Used PCs sought for Windows XP

— computerworld.com — November 26, 2008 (IDG News Service) Some used PCs are being purchased not for the hardware but... because people want to get their hands on a copy of Windows XP , according to industry analysts and hardware suppliers. A lot of PCs have been disposed of ... (more) Used PCs sought for Windows XP

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Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program
Hardware 2.0 — ... Sobering stats from Secunia. Out of a random sampling of 20,000 systems, a whopping 98.09% have one or more insecure program installed . The total number of PCs/users included in these numbers are 20,000, out of these 98.09% have 1 or more insecure programs installed on their PC, hence: 98 out of 100 PCs that are connected to the Internet have insecure programs installed! It gets worse - nearly half of all Windows systems have eleven or more insecure programs installed. Here’s the data: This data is a subset of the data collected by Secunia’s own ...

Secunia Survey Finds 98 Percent of PCs Have Vulnerable Program
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... is that according to Microsoft’s most recent Security Intelligence Report, the number of unique vulnerability disclosures across the industry decreased four percent during the first half of 2008, continuing a decline that began in the second half of 2007. Still, users should take note of the importance of having their applications up-to-date. “It is just as important to patch your programs against security threats, as it is to have a personal firewall and anti-virus program running,” according to a Secunia blog.

98.09% Windows PC contains at least one insecure program
D' Technology Weblog — ... Sobering stats from Secunia. Out of a random sampling of 20,000 systems, a whopping 98.09% have one or more insecure program installed. “The total number of PCs/users included in these numbers are 20,000, out of these 98.09% have 1 or more insecure programs installed on their PC, hence: 98 out of 100 PCs that are connected to the Internet have insecure programs installed!” It gets worse - nearly half of all Windows systems have eleven or more insecure programs installed[...] ...

Research Shows Almost No PCs Fully Patched
eWeek Security Watch — Security researchers at Secunia published an eye-opening report in a blog post today, saying in the note that based on their observations, less than 2 percent of all active Windows PCs are fully patched against known security vulnerabilities. Cripes! We've been hearing for years that being fully patched is fairly unrealistic, but less than 2 percent, that's truly terrible stuff, especially when you consider that many of the near 800,000 respondents to Secunia's research project likely work at ...

Update Vulnerable Programs from Your Computer
Google Operating System — ... Secunia collected data from 20,000 users of the software and found at least one vulnerability in 98.09% of the cases. "By insecure program it is understood, that there is a newer version of the program available from the vendor that corrects one or more vulnerabilities, but the user has yet to install the secure version. A vulnerability in a program can be exploited by hackers to anything from compromising a PC, to automatically install trojans/viruses, to sniff out private information (passwords, credit cards information, etc)." ...