Internet Explorer more Secure than Mozilla products

News.com ^

[markedmannerf]

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.

[twntaipan]

This is highly misleading. Symantec says that they base their assertions on data provided by the companies.

Mozilla foundation reports all their vulnerabilities because the large open source community acts as a peer review for their products.

Microsoft doesn't have any kind of peer review of their code base--it's a closed system.

What Microsoft doesn't report, Symantec doesn't report--understand the truthuntruths?

[TechJunkYard]

You can't believe everything you read in the papers...

[Bush2000]

The best way to cut down on spyware is to make sure that your employees are running with Restricted User Accounts (Control Panel | User Accounts | Select User | Properties | Restricted User. That prevents spyware from even installing itself on their boxes, because it lacks sufficient privileges.

[Golden Eagle]

Nah, Howard Dean is an open source luni, even named his campaign "open source politics". Now we have this:

http://www.demzilla.org