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RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:39:11 -0500
--On July 1, 2008 3:31:32 PM -0400 Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
From your paper:It is noteworthy that it has taken 19 months since the initial generalavailability of IE7 (public release October 2006) to reach 52.5% proliferation amongst users that navigate the Internet with Microsoft's Web browser. Meanwhile, 92.2% of Firefox users have migrated to FF2. Could this be due to the fact that Mozilla stops supporting, and issuing updates for old versions just a few months after the release of a new one?
My completely non-scientific, unsupported-by-empirical-evidence answer is no. It's because people who use Firefox tend to be more aware of security threats and the need to keep software up to date. It could also be (at least in part) because Firefox has a built-in, enabled-by-default, update available warning system.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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- RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Larry Seltzer (Jul 01)
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- RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Paul Schmehl (Jul 01)
- RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Nick FitzGerald (Jul 02)
- Re: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Rainer Duffner (Jul 02)
- RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Jeff Martin (Jul 11)
- Re: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Rob Thompson (Jul 12)
- RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Paul Schmehl (Jul 01)
- Re: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk Rob Thompson (Jul 02)