TehBorken wrote:
Raver wrote:
Firefox, while a vastly superior product, is no more secure than IE. The reason there are less security exploits for Firefox is because something like 75% of internet users are using IE.
That's simply not true. For example, FireFox doesn't use Active-X which is a HUGE hole. It's also not tied directly inthe operating system so there aren't all the available exploits that IE has.
[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]If you were going to write an exploit, which one would you target?
The least secure one, which is IE.
Muckraker Flingster VIII, insolently and unnecessarily added:
[span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"]After getting all sorts of weird viruses spontaneously downloading on IE and weird crap on Outlook express, I switched to Firefox for internet browsing and Thunderbird email, and haven't had any problems since.[/span][br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"][br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"]When vulnerabilities are found on Firefox, the problem is quickly exposed and solved. When vulnerabilities occure on IE, the problem is hidden and solved very slowly. For this reason, there could be the illusion of Firefox being more vulnerable (due to MS's lack of forthrightness).[/span]