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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141462-c,researchreports/article.html
| Quote: | | The number of security bugs in Red Hat's Linux and Mozilla browsers surpass Microsoft's offerings, and CA security products are lacking, report says. |
| Quote: | | Secunia has found that the number of security bugs in the open source Red Hat Linux operating system and Firefox browsers far outstripped comparable products from Microsoft last year. |
| Quote: | | On the other hand, "zero-day" security bugs in Firefox were patched more quickly than in Microsoft Internet Explorer, according to the Secunia 2007 Report, released this week. |
| Quote: | | In a review of the number of vulnerabilities found in enterprise anti-virus vendors' products, Secunia found that CA was by far the leader, with 187 vulnerabilities, followed by Symantec with 73. Trend Micro (34), ClamAV (15), McAfee (13) and F-Secure (6) ranked lower on the list. |
| Quote: | Out of the operating systems monitored by Secunia - Windows (98 and onwards), Mac OS X, HP-UX 10.x and 11.x, Solaris 8, 9, and 10 and Red Hat (excluding Fedora) - Red Hat was found to have by far the most vulnerabilities, at 633, with 99 percent found in third-party components. (Linux distributions are generally composed mostly of third-party software, which is integrated by the distributor.)
Solaris came next, with 252 bugs, 80 percent of which were in third-party components. Mac OS X came after that with 235, 62 percent of which were third-party.
Windows had only 123 bugs reported but 96 percent of those were found in the operating system itself.
HP-UX had 75 bugs reported, 81 percent of which were in third-party code.
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| Quote: | | In the browser field, Firefox led the way with 64 bugs, compared to 43 for Internet Explorer, and 14 each for Opera and Safari. |
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Dale61
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As long as people realise that Red Hat and Ubuntu are NOT the same.
Strange that Ubuntu wasn't included in the studies. Maybe they just used operating systems that were known to have security flaws.
As for Firefox, I have never had a problem, security or otherwise, in the 6 years I've been using it.
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| Dale61 wrote: | As long as people realise that Red Hat and Ubuntu are NOT the same.
Strange that Ubuntu wasn't included in the studies. Maybe they just used operating systems that were known to have security flaws.
As for Firefox, I have never had a problem, security or otherwise, in the 6 years I've been using it. |
I have had Problems with Both but FireFox is a Tone Better than crap in IE
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Piethagoras' Theorem
the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk
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| Quote: | | Out of eight zero-day bugs reported for Firefox in 2007, five have been patched, three of those in just over a week. Out of 10 zero-day IE bugs, only three were patched and the shortest patch time was 85 days. |
That's probably why you haven't had any problems with Firefox Dale. As for the ones that weren't patched I suspect most people wouldn't even know they had them. IE may have had less bugs but very slack with the patches
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Dale61
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Could it be that the developers of Firefox actually care about those who do use Firefox?
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Dave The Man
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| Dale61 wrote: | | Could it be that the developers of Firefox actually care about those who do use Firefox? |
You hit the nail on the Head, FireFox Developers Care for there Program and Fix Problems where the Microsoft People don't really see it as a Major Project
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