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IE More Secure Than Mozilla?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @03:10AM from the now-wait-a-minute-here dept.

killproc writes "Symantec has issued a report that suggests that Internet Explorer may be more secure than the open source Mozilla Foundation browsers. "According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified as high severity. "During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," the report noted." "

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Spread the wealth by NetGeek · 2005-09-20 03:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nice to see M$ spread the wealth with other companies.
Re:Questions by Mr.+Underbridge · 2005-09-20 03:23 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Or...how many of Firefox's bugs allowed root-level execution of arbitrary code?
OK, then by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 03:52 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I just found 12 vulnerabilities in firefox? What, they don't repro for you? Too bad.
Re:My wife has gotten several by whitehatlurker · 2005-09-20 04:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

With the new tabbed browsing in IE, I'm not sure which browser I'll start using at home.
HINT ;-)

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