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Microsoft: System attacks XP suffered twice as Vista and Win7

April 28th, 2010 Herry Liu No comments

According to Microsoft’s latest survey, in the second half of 2009, Windows XP system attacks suffered the most, Vista and Windows 7 is more than twice. Net Applications, market research authority until the end of March the market statistics report, XP is still the largest share of the Windows system (64.46%), Vista, and Windows 7, respectively 16.01% and 10.23%.
Microsoft is investigating the second half of 2009 for the Windows system itself and for third-party software vulnerabilities vulnerability attacks showed, Vista and Windows 7 Most of the attacks on vulnerabilities associated with third-party software, very few because of their vulnerability by hackers But XP is quite different.
XP suffered in the attack, 44.7% is the use of third-party software vulnerabilities, with 55.3% are using Microsoft’s weakness, this proportion is twice as Vista and Windows 7 (24.6%). Although Vista and Windows 7 Most of the attacks are now suffering because the third-party software vulnerabilities, system flaws, but because the attack from the first half (15.5%), nearly 10 percentage points higher.

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Left for XP, right for Vista and Windows 7