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To: Elsewhere who wrote (14423)	3/29/2006 10:27:46 AM
From: fred g	Read Replies (1) of 46821

I think the Firefox claims are basically reasonable. IE is a horrible virus vector. ActiveX allows web sites to basically 0wNz04 your computer. Not everybody leaves it wide open, but enough do, and it's hard to allow it at all and remain safe. The signature mechanism is a joke. It's generally open to popups (though it might have tightened up lately, I'm not sure). And it's sloppy. Because it's "integrated into the OS", it has too damned much access to stuff no application should go near. Firefox and the Mozilla family of browsers are much safer. It's very, very difficult to plant spyware via a web page and Firefox, at least if set up right. Besides, the malware authors rarely waste their time trying. Over 75% of consumer-level users still use IE, which is about as secure as a pup tent on the beach, so why waste time trying to pick the deadbolts of the Firefox fortress nearby? And when a hole in a Mozilla browser shows up, they patch it rather quickly.

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