Re: FTM2006

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.....

Headline: Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE

Story beginning: Mozilla Web browsers are potentially more vulnerable to
attack than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a Symantec report

web story: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5873273.html?tag=nl



Headline: Symantec: Fix in for Firefox bugs

Story beginning: Mozilla has released an update to Firefox to fix several
serious security flaws, including a recently disclosed bug that could let
attackers secretly run malicious software on PCs.

web story: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5875797.html


Since it was first released not long ago Firefox is now up to version 1.0.7
because of several release to fix bugs and security holes in the software.
Not that either one is better or worse than the other, just that everyone
goes around blowing the golden horn touting how one is SOOOOO much better
than the other. Not true, its not possible to write perfect software yet.
Just took a while for people to start using it and the flaws of Firefox come
out too...... You might just as well use whichever one you want to because
of how YOU LIKE IT and just keep up on the updates as new problems are
discovered in BOTH of them.

If anyone thinks they are now running (or will ever run) a browser that is
impervious to problems or attack they are deluding themselves.




"CM Research Services" <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cLZw3PB4H4RDFwdR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Partially principle, mostly because I don't use MSIE (I use Firefox)
> so I don't see why I should spend time and effort downloading some
> bug-ridden security leak, er, software upgrade, that I don't need.
> --
> Andrew Brydon
> CM Research Services
> Opinions expressed ARE those of this facility... 'till I'm fired!


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