Microsoft: Less Vulnerabilites in IE7 compared to Firefox
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft today published a report that evaluates the security performance of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox through a detailed comparative look at vulnerabilities.
The “Web Browser Vulnerability Analysis” report finds that over a period of three years, Internet Explorer proved to have fewer vulnerabilities than Mozilla Firefox. The report research, conducted by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, examines in detail the volume and severity of vulnerabilities in the two browsers and includes these key findings:
• Microsoft has fixed 87 total vulnerabilities (across all supported versions of Internet Explorer) while Mozilla has fixed 199 vulnerabilities in supported Firefox products
• Internet Explorer experienced a lower volume of reported vulnerabilities across all categories of severity (high, medium, low)
Microsoft quitely announced the findings via the IE Blog.
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Comments(21)
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end of.
ok, i believe everything ms tells us. don't you?
...firefox fixes vulnerabiliets more quickly. this way the would release more updates
whereas ms bundles them together so it look like less
... except they counted vulnerabilities, not hotfixes pr fix bundles.
what are you doing with firefox and explorer?? better use opera, that rocks that house in
every way :p
microsoft only patched 87 mistakes, errors or whatever... so how many bugs were not
patched that should have been?
firefox is working harder to patch much needed
issues, as obviously not delaying patches like microsft with 199...
isn't
interesting that the same business promoting ie7 just happens to make firefox look bad, to
offer less security patches and were suppose to admire them?
truth is ie7 and
vista are flawed worse, offer less innovation and for all that didn't know yet, windows
95 at first didn't have a browser, because it was stolen by microsoft later...
microsoft tricked another business into letting microsoft bundle it with windows thinking
they would get paid for each copy sold...
however, microsoft cheated them by
saying it's free... despite windows was sold...
microsoft never created the
browser, and it;s the same with msdos... acquired from another who mysterious died
later...
falling down to his death ...
ie7 is source code is not
open for public review either...
what ever ie. even if ie are more secure than ff, i would never go back to ie. used ff
before netscape's comback...
bill: you damn right
ie7 works fine. opera works fine. firefox works ok. pick out the one you feel more
comfortable about. gimme a break: there's no best of anything in life. c'mon you guys!
too bad i.e. has so few ease-of-use customizations.
and why is there a tab
bar when only one window is being used?
and why can't i put the address and
navigation areas on the same line?
with firefox i have one bar at the top with a
bunch of useful customizations and a statusbar with many tools.
theres just no
comparison.
as far as user control, i.e. 7 is a giant leap backward from i.e. 6.
one-sided articles like the one above do nothing for m$ credibility.
the buzz is about somebody trying to con you(and me) out of your(and my) money.
it's just irritating when someone tries to convince you an inferior product is
better.
no offense meant to you, but we know that ms has the capability of turning
out great product, and we're all paying for botched-up bullshit.
you will see me post here a lot, but you will never see me doing hate-speak.
there is a majority-held opinion that bill gates' high school stated desire to "rule the
world" is behind a slew of dirty tricks, and a lot of people are bitter about it.
most of us have experimented around with software and, after reformatting and resetting
until we are sick of it, we've gotten a setup that works.
we are reading the
consumer reviews and have developed a "wait-and_see" attitude to determine what mods we
want to make. that's why the outrage when someone takes over our boxes and throws in
a "sneak" "update".
interesting comments, kim.
of couse nothing is provable, or there would
have been massive fallout.
will check this page often. lets talk via junk e-mail
addys.
there's a lot more of this stuff going on than the sheeple want to
confront.
for once i agree with you. (going back to the xp vs vista thing)
yes most of
these articles are usually full of crap.
but this battle between open-source
sw including ff goes deeper than "meets the eye"
alot of these stories are
turning into the internet version of media hype we see on tv.
damn shame it all
is.
you can't compare ie7 and firefox, since you can run into firefox lots of add-ons to
enhance security, like noscript. i've never had any vulnerability problem through ff by
testing it on some p*rn infected websites. no antivirus needed in ff, meanwhile my
antivirus became crazy while using ie7 !!
ie7 is crap! the fox rocks!!!
i did notice one thing..although not a real security threat..
some scripts do
get to run without permission in ff where as in ie you get prompted to run the activex
control.
one example is when you want to use the ipb "add image" feature.
in ff the js box comes right up.
in ie7 (by default) you are
prompted to allow the activex to run.
i believe you can change that setting in
ff though.
either way im not too concerned even if ff had a few more scurity
flaws than ie only because i rely on my firewall more then anything else.
all
in all ...firefox all the way!
ie7 is way faster than firefox for me anyways
and i have never had any
problems with ie7 so i dont understand why everyone hates it or is everyone just believing
what people say or something
firefox= torbutton, ad block plus, noscript, easier to automatically clear private data,
customizeable themes, buttons etc its much better
i.e. does initially load faster than firefox (maybe cuz i use many toolbar,
statusbar, and right-click functions and it takes awhile for all that to load up), but
after that they run at about the same speed.
firefox has many people submitting
code nightly and after checks, the stuff goes out to us quickly, where m$ updates usually
come out once a month.
i.e. is a lot more stable than it was years ago, and if it
works well for you, you are right for supporting something that works.
many times
a particular hardware of driver configuration will throw a glitch in good software and
turn somebody off to that software.
don't listen to haters. take what works for
you and throw out what doesn't.
"hardware or driver configuration"
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