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You realize that they don't verify the threat itself, only the origin of the report of the threat. For all app and OS vendors listed on Secunia, many of the advisories are merely because someone has proven, in theory, THE POSSIBILITY of an exploit because they found a flaw. Many can not actually provide any exploit to prove out the theory however. That is a fact that pretty much sums up my feelings on questioning who is better due to advisory counts. It's really a wasted argument when you think about it. This mci...ocx is proof of that. It's been out there forever but there is no proof of concept. The finder could never actually exploit the flaw(had years to do this now) and he even questions if the buffer overrun is exploitable at all as do others that have tried and failed. eEye is one who is listing there own security threats and publishing their own costly tool to magically protect everyone from the holes they have found. Many of there holes are only listed on there site and are very vague, at best. In the end it's the exploits that matter and MS has that one by a landslide. They have, however, gotten a world better within the past year and actually do continue to improve. At least that's my 2 cents.
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Already running it. (NT)  Letophoro | 09/21/05
Current list of unpatched IE holes  figgle | 09/21/05
Wow, 444 Days Combined Overdue For IE Flaws  itanalyst | 09/21/05
Interesting that every page links to their Blink Endpoint product  george_ou | 09/21/05
Uh oh  yyuko@... | 09/21/05
I don't know.  Letophoro | 09/21/05
You'll have to excuse them for reporting the facts  toadlife | 09/21/05
Just had to say it....  figgle | 09/21/05
Nice link...  Anti_Zealot | 09/21/05
Why did you post that?  toadlife | 09/21/05
just a heads up  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Just have to say it  IT Scion | 09/22/05
They can't do as much with IE...  BitTwiddler | 09/21/05
BWahahahaha!!! Yeah dude!!!  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
New version works great  wcikanek@... | 09/21/05
no it does seem faster  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
It's a responsiveness thang  slingzenarrowzuvowtrayjissforchin | 09/21/05
yup  cygnusx1 | 09/21/05
Is George Ou here?  Anti_Zealot | 09/21/05
facts are kryptonite to propagandists  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Unpatched vulnerabilities are low risk  george_ou | 09/21/05
assumptions  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Are they?  Richard Flude | 09/21/05
Ok, one "highly critical"  george_ou | 09/21/05
More low risk?  Richard Flude | 09/21/05
ActiveX is a feature  george_ou | 09/22/05
ActiveX  CobraA1 | 09/22/05
ActiveX....  ju1ce | 09/22/05
ActiveX  IT Scion | 09/22/05
IT Scion...  ju1ce | 09/22/05
Juice Ju1ce or whatever.....  IT Scion | 09/22/05
I said "most" were low risk  george_ou | 09/22/05
I see  CobraA1 | 09/22/05
Secunia's word  IT Scion | 09/22/05
MCIWNDX.OCX  IT Scion | 09/22/05
Re: Unpatched vulnerabilities are low risk  none none | 09/22/05
ZDNet Should Place All FF Flaw/Bug Reports Under Sub-News Heading  itanalyst | 09/21/05
like Nietzsche said..  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Depends what you mean by "Bug"...  figgle | 09/21/05
Wow  IT Scion | 09/22/05
Figgle and itanalyst.  ShadeTree | 09/21/05
thought  ibabadur1 | 09/21/05
Not in the context that it is being used here!  ShadeTree | 09/21/05
No, It's The Inherent Slowness Microsoft Responds To Problems  itanalyst | 09/21/05
Oh man!  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Once again it depends on the context and ...  ShadeTree | 09/22/05
Bwahahahaha!!!  Jeff Spicoli | 09/21/05
Meanwile  CobraA1 | 09/21/05
And  IT Scion | 09/22/05
In relation to the O/S that is... (NT)  ju1ce | 09/22/05
So anyway...About the *fix*?  tmd0309@... | 09/22/05
Not too much reason  Greenknight_z | 09/23/05
I take it back, more reasons to update  Greenknight_z | 09/24/05
Running 1.5 Beta 1  Greenknight_z | 09/23/05

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