Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 12, 2006 @01:34AM from the double-think dept.

chill writes "Last September security software vendor Symantec issued a report claiming IE had fewer critical flaws than Firefox and thus was more secure. Well, it seem they have now rethought that position. 'How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison,' said Oliver Friedrichs, the senior manager of Symantec's security response group. 'It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.' The key was vendor acknowledged critical vulnerabilities. Thus, if Microsoft (or the Mozilla Foundation) didn't agree it was critical, then it didn't get counted."

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Re:OneCare by sqlrob · 2006-03-12 03:30 · Score: 4, Informative

vice versa happened a couple of weeks ago.
Re:OneCare by Dehumanizer · 2006-03-12 04:23 · Score: 3, Informative

Almost there.

Joe Sixpack believes all software is from Microsoft. In fact, they invented computers, ya know.

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