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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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