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[Nvyseal]

images/news/firefox.jpgJeffrey Jones, a researcher and the Security Strategy Director at Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, recently posted a report (PDF format) that was featured in the CSO online magazine. The report compared the security track records of both Internet Explorer and Firefox, including both older (IE 6 and Firefox 1.0) and newer (IE 7, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0) versions. Jones came to the conclusion that, contrary to popular belief, Internet Explorer has experienced fewer security vulnerabilities than Firefox over the same periods of time.

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What are your thoughts: Is IE more secure than FF??

[m.oreilly]

Nvyseal, on Dec 3 2007, 09:57 AM, said:

What are your thoughts: Is IE more secure than FF??

LOL!!!

[TheBearLT]

Well.. yes.. IE is more secure then FF, I agree with that..

But, due to Hackers not interested in Creating Lots of Malware for Firefox, and concentrating on Widely Spreaded one, Internet explorer, we starting to think that Yes, Firefox is more secured etc.

[brewin]

All you have to do is use both of them for a while and you'll find that Firefox is safer. Comparing the numbers of disclosed vulnerabilities is meaningless. There are too many variables. One big variable being undisclosed vulnerabilities in IE.

[TheBearLT]

brewin, on Dec 4 2007, 07:08 AM, said:

All you have to do is use both of them for a while and you'll find that Firefox is safer. Comparing the numbers of disclosed vulnerabilities is meaningless. There are too many variables. One big variable being undisclosed vulnerabilities in IE.

The Last Time i opened ms IE.. was... well I don't remember

I using Firefox and Firefox only.. But still I believe, that if Hackers shall start Digging in Firefoxes "Core" massively, and shall forgot about MS IE, Firefox would be as vulnerable as damn iE

Edited by TheBearLT, 04 December 2007 - 10:44 AM.