Are you secure and up-to-date?

If you are using Firefox, chances are good, if you are using IE, things look bad. According to a report from the Washington Post, “83.3 percent of Firefox users were found to have the latest version installed at any given time” compared to “47.6 percent of Microsoft Internet Explorer users”.

The info was collected only by browser type and did not include any plug-ins “such as those for Flash Player, Java, QuickTime and Adobe Reader. It's a safe bet that the share of users surfing the Web with fully-patched browsers would be far below 60 percent (probably closer to 15 or 20 percent),” if these were taken into account.

So now you ask how you can be sure that all of these plug-ins and other software you use is updated and secure? There is one way that I use and that is to use Secunia’s PSI. It “is designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities”.

With this info,

Safe Surfing!