full-disclosure - IE is just as safe as FireFox

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Message-ID: <200411140606906.SM02460@wolfcub3kv>
From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: IE is just as safe as FireFox

WB wrote:
> Do a search for reported vulnerabilities for IE and one for 
> Netscape/Mozilla.
> 
> I think by count alone IE will win. 
<snip>

I haven't run IE in a year and run Adaware once a quarter just for fun and
have not seen spyware since.  And the newest feature of 1.0, notifying you
when ANYTHING try's to install, is just one more example of FireFox's focus
on security.

And as for those sites that use ActiveX, I pass them by since they don't
have the good since to stick with web standards.

FireFox ROX!

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer 
DP Solutions

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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
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