Microsoft Office comes as the most popular application on PCs with its installation featured on 45 percent of all the computers studied by Avast. Also, the number of installed tools and frameworks such as MS Visual C++ Redistributable, Adobe Flash Player ActiveX, and Microsoft's Silverlight aren't being kept up-to-date by the user or abandoned by the vendor in some cases.
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The report mentions that Adobe Shockwave, VLC Media Player, and Skype are amongst the common apps where updates are most frequently neglected. This has been increased from 48 percent of out-of-date applications found on PCs in 2017.
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However, the latest report shows that most CPUs on computing devices are still dual-core and the most popular RAM size is 4GB.īased on anonymised and aggregated data from 163 million devices across the globe, the PC Trends Report 2019 by Avast shows that 55 percent of PC applications installed worldwide are out-of-date - making PC users vulnerable to security attacks. AMD and Intel are busy in developing processors with multiple cores. Avast also mentions in the report that while desktops are still in use, 67 percent of users are choosing laptops and tablets. The report, titled the PC Trends Report 2019, also highlights that Adobe Shockwave comes as the leading application where updates are most frequently neglected, followed VLC Media Player and Skype.
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More than half of PC applications installed worldwide are out-of-date, according to an annual report by digital security company Avast.