Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack'

Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack'
John Leyden, The Register 2005-09-19

Symantec has attacked the perceived security advantages of Firefox and Apple Macs by drawing unfavourable comparisons with Microsoft's software and describing Mac fans as living in a "false paradise". According to the latest edition of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, 25 vulnerabilities were disclosed for Mozilla browsers and 13 for Microsoft Internet Explorer in the first half of 2005.

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Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2005-09-20
neohx_7

This is a very misleading headline and an irresponsible piece. Firefox may be under attack, but I saw no evidence or claims that MacOS was. The rootkit is a joke. Thats like saying a DOS batch file with "del *.*" on the internet somewhere is a virus that is threatening the Windows world. Its sim...

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Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2005-09-21
pixelfairy

symantic makes money from microsofts failings (or at least the perception thereof) people jumping to mac means less customers, since apple handles the mac security problems pretty well.

people using firefox means less IE only web sites, meaning people *can* jump from windows. meaning less custome...

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Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2005-09-22
theseeker (1 replies)

Ah... Firefox support, I see... As for me, I'm neutral... I will however say that this is a very good article, and finally points out what I have been trying to tell people for the last year or so... Firefox is just as vulnerable to attack as any other browser, if not more so... The point isn't to s...

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Re: Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2005-09-26
Anonymous (1 replies)

profile... exactly my point the bigger you are the higher the target, and the harder you fall..!!...

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Re: Re: Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2006-02-15
Anonymous

wELL, lOOK, FOLKS, i WORK FOR A LARGE k12 DISTRICT , WE HAVE BOTH OSx AND WINDOWS 2003 SERVER NETWORKS WHICH RUN SEPERATLY TO THE OUTSIDE INTERNET. We have been runing these ayatems for a long time now and are seeing that we have far less trouble with the MAC platform, even in a server environment. ...

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