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Top 10 Vulnerable Windows Apps


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From Bit9

 

1. Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.239 and earlier

2. Apple QuickTime 7.2

3. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

4. Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger 7.0, 8.0

5. EMC VMware Player (and other products) 2.0, 1.0.4

6. Apple iTunes 7.3.2

7. Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition 9 and earlier

8. Sun Java Runtime 1.6.0_X

9. Yahoo! Widgets 4.0.5 and previous

10. Ask.com Toolbar 4.0.2.53 and previous

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ActiveX controls are a big malware/infection vector.

 

Because they're designed to be convenient -- they're also convenient for the black hats.

 

For everyday browsing, I use FireFox -- and now that browser hijack exploits that can take over Safari and Firefox as well as IE are common in the wild, I also use the NoScript add-in for Firefox. I'm happy to say that, so protected, I sailed without incident through HC's brief but somewhat unnerving bout of hijack attempts -- I never even saw a pop up. (I allow top-level access for hamony-central.com itself but do not allow script access for any associate domains/advertisers/etc, even Akamai.net, who HC use for caching some content. It slows down page refreshes. Big deal. I can easily live without that half-second or so extra.)

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