secunia.com — According to this overview by Secunia, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has 25 unpatched security holes. Firefox is doing better, but isn't perfect, with 3 unpatched vulnerabilities (there's a link at the top of the page).
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icetigaurusOct 12, 2005
Actually it is:20 out of 86 Secunia advisories, are marked as "Unpatched" for Internet Explorer 6.x and gets a highly critical rating (4 out of 5)vs3 out of 25 Secunia advisories, are marked as "Unpatched" for FireFox 1.x and gets a less critical rating (2 out of 5)
bugmenot2Oct 12, 2005
Look at this.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/HOW_TO:_Make_Internet_Explorer_Secure">http://digg.com/security/HOW_TO:_Make_Internet_Explorer_Secure</a>
flunky02038Oct 12, 2005
It still amazes me the way people are shocked about the crappy security in M$ products - just take a peek back to the NT days in 1998 and read this quote."Every once in a while, a Windows NT advocate will say, "But, Windows NT is C2 compliant". So, to try to shed some light on this subject, let me say that Windows NT Version 3.5.1 is, in fact, compliant with the Department of Defense's C2 Security specification. However, it is so only when disconnected from a network!"Full quote can be found at <a class="user" href="http://telecom.tbi.net/ntc2.htm">http://telecom.tbi.net/ntc2.htm</a> I rest my case.
tribalsunOct 12, 2005
Opera, 0 unpatched security flaws. I love my Opera :-)
geekoidOct 12, 2005
Okay, let's put a little balance here. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x (Based on ***70*** advisories between 2003 and 2005)Mozilla Firefox 1.x (Based on ***25*** advisories between 2003 and 2005)Not only has Firefox had one third of the bugs that IE has had, they've also been less severe... Just look at those bar graphs!
nocreOct 12, 2005
Due to my obsessive compulsions and that I'm somewhat anal retentive, I'm going to double post and annoy you all to fix a couple of misspellings:lump*, it's* (the second occurence),
Closed AccountOct 12, 2005
FireFOX = crap, Opera = Good.FirFox is not much better than MS IE. Just because FireFOX makes products with less vulnerabilities than MS IE, doesn't mean they should get away with having more vulnerabilities than Opera. Die! FireFOX! Die!
mikewellerOct 13, 2005
Firefox still has 1/9th of the userbase that IE has. I'll wait until they're equal before comparing statistics.
tr176Oct 17, 2005
The only flaw in IE is IE, but that's just my opinion.