[lbo-talk] What's holier than Internet Explorer - report

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 09:19:51 PST 2005


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Firefox holier than Internet Explorer - report

While UK tops bot league

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22008 By: Paul Hales Tuesday 22 March 2005, 09:07

MOZILLA-BASED BOWSERS have more holes than Internet Explorer, Symantec said in its seventh half-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, published yesterday.

The report said Symantec had found 21 vulnerabilities in browsers such as Firefox, compaed(sic) with 13 in IE. A spokesman told the Aussie paper The Age that malicious attacks on Firefox were bound to increase as the brower becomes more popular.

Apple’s browser, Safari, was hole-free during the six months to the end of 2004, the company reckoned. But OS X was leaky as a sieve, notching up 37 high-severity vulnerabilities during the period. <...>

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