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Microsoft’s flawed approach to application updates wreaks havoc on Windows PCs
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7th November 2023, 07:22
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Microsoft’s flawed approach to application updates wreaks havoc on Windows PCs WinRAR has a massive security hole that’s still being actively exploited, and it’s one of many Windows applications that do not auto-update. The developer boasts of more than 500 million WinRAR installations around the world, so it’s likely that hundreds of millions of PCs are vulnerable to malicious ZIP files today. https://www.osnews.com/story/137748/...n-windows-pcs/ |
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