40% of Internet users do not upgrade their browsers to the most secure
version. Internet Explorer users have the worst record, with
more than half having failed to update.
OK, people, do your patriotic duty and get with the upgrades!
Then we can see the National Threat Advisory go down to blue,
for the first time in history.
(source:
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080701-40-of-surfers-dont-bother-with-browser-security-updates.html">Ars
Technica)
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On Friday there will be some upgrading of the site so commenting will be off for a while, and possibly, comments will be stuck in moderation. That is all thank you very much.
Hear me, Ubuntu-using brothers and sisters! Never use the on-line upgrade option to switch to a newer version of the operating system!
ScienceBlogs is getting some back-end work done this evening, with yet another server/ MT upgrade. This is intended to help with the frequent timeout problems that bloggers and commenters have been having.
Ah, but sometimes the most secure version of a browser is not compatible with other software running on the same machine. For example, a routine security upgrade to IE7 in the spring of 2007 shut down my version of ArcGIS. This problem might be fixed by now, but I resolved it by uninstalling IE7 (at least to the extent that one can) and only using Firefox. This is the sort of thing that makes people wary of accepting upgrades. (Though my version of Firefox is up-to-date.)