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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' 2005-09-22
theseeker
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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