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' 2005-09-22
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 say that IE is better, or that Windows is better... The point is that Symantec has been very fair, and has pointed out the flaws in Firefox and OS X... After all, they did say that OS X is still an emerging target and rather constant for the time being... And as for Firefox, just like with anything else, even IE, anyone with any knowledge about security would know that the biggest threat to the security of any program is profile... The higher your profile, the worse of you are security-wise... So, your profile is actually a divisor to your security level...

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Re: Firefox and Mac security sanctuaries 'under attack' 2005-09-26
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