User Stupidity is the Biggest Security Threat Dept: 52.4% of IE Users Don't...

[mandy]

...update their browsers regularly with the latest security updates.  By contrast, only 16.7% of Firefox users are so stupid.

Nearly half (45.2 per cent) of all internet surfers neglect to regularly update their browser software. Slackness in applying updates in a timely fashion leaves an estimated 637 million surfers vulnerable to drive-by download attacks, according to a new survey...

The study found that Firefox users were the most diligent in applying security updates, with 83.3 per cent using the latest version. Less than half (47.6 per cent) of IE users used a fully patched version...

Firefox users "typically updated" within three days of the availability of a new security update. Opera users averaged around 11 days before patching their browser while some IE users are still stuck on IE6 a year and a half after the release of IE7...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/...ty_survey/