IE6 Was Unsafe 284 Days In 2006

An anonymous reader sends us to the Washington Post's Security Fix blog, where Brian Krebs has toted up the total vulnerability days for IE6 users in 2006. From the article: "For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users... In contrast, Internet Explorer's closest competitor in terms of market share — Mozilla's Firefox browser — experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem."

Comments

Do I even need to say it?

[DreadfulGrape]

IE6 sucked 365 days out of the year.

No, M$ is worse than your Truck.

[Erris]

My truck was unsafe 365 days. I could have been in an accident on any one of those days!

True, but most people don't. Your truck has a better than four minute half life on any road and far fewer than 90% of all trucks are actually owned by malware that takes them for spins and bank robberies while you are not looking.

Microsoft my not kill as many people as trucks do, but that's not a mater of reliability. The power required to use a computer is not as high as motor vehicles, yet.