By Tom Espiner
Published: Tuesday 20 September 2005
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Name
Stephen Walker (Apex Web Solutions)
Location
Flower Mound, Texas
Occupation
Web designer, IT consultant
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The Symantec report fails to distinguish patched and unpatched flaws. According to Secunia, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 has only 4 unpatched flaws, whereas MSIE 6.0 has 19 security flaws.
Besides, Opera 8.6 has zero security flaws, and it's now completely free (no more Google ads).
Opera is safest, followed by Firefox, and MSIE is (still) in 3rd.
As usual, the media fails to report the entire story, but misleads the public. Perhaps the biases of Symantec (who produces lots of software that runs on Windows) are also to blame.
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The Symantec report fails to distinguish patched a...
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In addition to the previous comments, Firefox 1.0 ...
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