IE more secure than Firefox?

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Hmmm interesting to say the least but my take on the matter is hackers have had far longer to write their exploits for IE than they have for Firefox, I wonder just how many exploits overall have been found for both.

Mozilla Web browsers are potentially more vulnerable to attack than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a Symantec report. But the report, released Monday, also found that hackers are still focusing their efforts on IE.

The open-source Mozilla Foundation browsers, such as the popular Firefox, have typically been seen as more secure than IE, which has suffered many security problems in the past. Mitchell Baker, president of the foundation, said earlier this year that its browsers were fundamentally more secure than IE. She also predicted that Mozilla Foundation browsers would not face as many problems as IE, even as their market share grows.

Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report Volume VIII contains data for the first six months of this year that may contradict this perception.

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.

The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities associated with both IE and Mozilla browsers in this period was classified as "high", which Symantec defined as "resulting in a compromise of the entire system if exploited."

The Mozilla Foundation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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[Eamonn]

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got to take into account that firefox is open source and people have access to the source code and are trying to find vulnerabilities so they can make it more secure plus the fact that they patch it pretty damn quick

[vinnieza]

humm, wonder if M$ paid them to say that

found that hackers are still focusing their efforts on IE.

That's probably because the hackers them selves use IE and they don't want to be vunurable to their own coding , also IE comes with most pc's and most users just use it not even knowing that ff even exists, so IE is a bigger target.