Stefan Frei and company have posted the results of a lengthy survey on web browser security, looking, in particular, at how many users were running versions without known vulnerabilities. "[W]e discovered that at most 83.3% of Firefox users, 65.3% of Safari users, 56.1% of Opera users, and 47.6% of Internet Explorer users were using the latest most secure browser version on any day between January 2007 to June 2008... Despite the single-click integrated auto-update functionality of Firefox, rather surprisingly, 16.7% Firefox users (one out of six) continue to surf the Web with an outdated version of the Web browser." But the real problem, they say, is with insecure plugins.
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