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Originally Posted by ecchi
RE: "I just use the amazingly slow browser known as Fire Fox" Why ? Leave it in the same box as Active X:
"Cupertino, CA- Leading internet security watchdog Symantec has issued a report showing that Mozilla browsers, including the latest, patched version of FireFox, contain more vulnerabilities than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer." (Source: Ynot news)
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Ecchi, Firefox is safer for the same reasons that any software product that has low lmarket share is: very few people write exploits for them.
If I want to expose a large number of inDUHviduals to a virus, malware, or spyware, I would always use an IE exploit. I would rather work to catch out the 90% of people using that browser, as opposed to the 10% using other browsers.
Just as importantly, IE is the "standard"... the default. It is what people with limited technical knowledge are most likely to use.
I would also be interested to see how they count "vunerabilties" - and I would be interested to see what percentage of end users actually have an up to date and patched IE browser.
Alex