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Symantec Rethinks Firefox vs IE Vulnerabilities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Reason #1 to lie by wap911 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the Dept of Justice accepts your PR crap [lies] then everyone should.

  2. Re:But there's more... by uptoeleven · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Linux was as popular, you'd have just as many naive and clueless Linux users as you now have Windows users.

    Apple are pretty popular. OS X has it's fans and the majority of them aren't particularly technically adept. Of course OS X is Unix, not Linux, but the comparison stands, it's fairly popular and most of its users lack clue.

    I'd love to see the user percentages of zombi-fied Apple boxes vs zombi-fied MS/Windows boxes if anyone has them, my suspicion is that your argument may be cromulent.