52 Percent of Computer Applications Rare In-Update

vast, digital security products, revealed that 52 percent of computer applications are rarely updated to the latest version by the user. This raises the vulnerable users are exposed personal data for malware targeting older versions of applications that can exploit vulnerabilities.

Avast PC Trend Report January 2017, based on data from TuneUp AVG product highlights 10 apps and hardware applications are most commonly used but rarely updated to the latest version.

Data were collected anonymously from 116 million desktop and laptop computers that run Windows Automatic features in AVG TuneUp Software Updater.

The following sequence most applications rarely updated:

Java (Runtime 6.7), Oracle Corporation
Flash Player (Active X), Adobe Systems
Foxit Reader, Foxit Software
GOM Media Player, Gretech
Nitro Pro, Nitro Software
WinZip, Corel Corporation
DivX, DivX LLC
Adobe Shockwave Player, Adobe Systems
7-ZIP, Igor Pavlov
Firefox, Mozilla

Instead, most applications are updated Google Chrome with 88 percent, 84 percent and Opera with Skype to 76 percent has been updated.

"In the online world, your security habits such as keeping updated app to always play a huge role in the level of protection on the Internet" said Ondrej Vlcek, Chief Technology Officer, GM and EVP Consumer Business at Avast.

"Running applications made obsolete computer users vulnerable to attacks from hackers who understands exploit vulnerabilities that are easily found or legacy. Causes of users still using obsolete applications may be due for an update is not installed properly or they delay or forget to update although it has been warned. "He said.