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Why Silent Updates Boost Security

May 2009

Authors

Thomas Duebendorfer, Stefan Frei

Excerpt

Security updates don't benefit the end user of software if the update mechanism and strategy is not effective. In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of different Web browsers update mechanisms based on massivle Google web log data.

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