Firefox Still Tops IE for Browser Security

Posted by tadelste on Sep 29, 2005 12:37 PM
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The number of security holes that occur isn't as telling as how they're handled.

Recently, there was quite a flap about a Symantec study, which showed that—horrors!—Firefox had more security holes than Internet Explorer.

But, what did Symantec's Internet Threat Report really show?

I asked Elias Levy, aka Aleph One, former moderator of Bugtrac and today, a Symantec architect. He told me that Symantec reported on the number of flaws that had been confirmed by the vendor.

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