Re: Open source software buggier than corporate

From: Rui Maciel (rui.maciel_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/17/05 

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:30:18 +0100

infoterror@gmail.com wrote:

> Firefox not only has more vulnerabilities per month than Internet
> Explorer, but it is now surpassing Internet Explorer for the number of
> exploits available for public download in recent months.
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=103

Ok. I'll byte.

If someone took the time to read the secunia page on the vulnerabilities of
firefox and IE, they would notice the difference. Firefox 1.x (all
versions?) has 3 unpatched vulnerabilities and 1 vulnerability with a
partial fix while IE6 has 19 unpatched vulnerabilities and 10
vulnerabilities with partial fixes. On top of that, IE6 has a highly
critical vulnerability unpatched since 2003. Firefox has ZERO Extremely
critical, highly critical or even moderately critical vulnerabilities left
unpatched.

Have in mind that Firefox came out of beta a few months ago while IE6 is
here for ages, that says a lot.

Hope this helps taim your FUD post
Rui Maciel 

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