If the gap was not patched, then it could be used by hackers to plant malware or other malicious programs.
Avast, a provider of digital security products, revealed that 52 percent of a computer program is rarely updated to the latest version by the user.
This raises vulnerable users are exposed personal data, because malware programs target the older version in order to exploit vulnerabilities.
Avast PC January 2017 Trend Report is based on data from TuneUp AVG product highlights 10 apps that are commonly used to sneak malware, and rarely updated to the latest version by the user.
Data were collected anonymously from 116 million desktop and laptop computers that run Windows Automatic features in AVG TuneUp Software Updater.
The following sequence of the applications most frequently updated:
1. Java (Runtime 6.7), Oracle Corporation
2. Flash Player (Active X), Adobe Systems
3. Foxit Reader, Foxit Software
4. GOM Media Player, Gretech
5. Nitro Pro Nitro Software
6. WinZip, Corel Corporation
7. DivX, DivX LLC
8. Adobe Shockwave Player, Adobe Systems
9. 7-ZIP, Igor Pavlov
10. Firefox, Mozilla
Avast, in a written statement received KompasTekno, Monday (27/03/2017), calling the 24 million users who disurveinya still running a version of Java Runtime 6 and 7, which is an outdated version.
A total of 26 million users have the latest version, namely Java 8 and 70 percent of users have not installed the latest update release (currently updating 121).
Flash (ActiveX) 99% of users have not updated this component in Internet Explorer and Foxit Reader with 92% of users still using the old version of the application.
Instead, most applications are Google Chrome updated to the percentage of 88 percent, Opera with 84 percent, and Skype with 76 percent of users have to update it.
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