According to security and vulnerability research company Secunia, a typical home user who is running Windows is facing the “unreasonable” challenge to patch one software or another every five days.
In the last week of January, of the users who ran Secunia’s Personal Software Inspector (PSI) application, half had at least 66 programs from more than 21 vendors on their machines, resulting in the need to master 22 or more different patch mechanisms.
While Secunia’s Chief Security Officer, Thomas Kristensen, is calling for software vendors to create a unified patching standard, he is not holding his breath for this to become a reality any time soon.
Therefore, the company is releasing a technical preview of PSI 2.0 which will include automatic updating functionality reminiscent of what Microsoft provides for Windows and other software. Their patch tool eventually will handle 70-80% of the software on consumers’ Windows machines.
You can read more about Secunia’s PSI findings in their white paper.
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