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Leads me to a question
Have we been spared massing Firefox based attacks because Firefox is so well written or because Firefox users are smart enough to avoid obvious attacks and are also smart enough to apply patches that fix gaping holes in security? If Firefox has critical vulnerabilities and IE has critical vulnerabilities, the only possible explanation for the proliferation of successful IE exploits has nothing to do with the code and everything to do with the users.
Posted by: NonZealot   Posted on: 12/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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No problems here  Tim Patterson | 12/13/05
Fixed in Firefox 1.0.5?? That was about a year ago.  wackoae | 12/13/05
Your point is irrelevant...  toadlife | 12/13/05
Good  Jeff Spicoli | 12/13/05
It would be irrelevant for IE users  wackoae | 12/13/05
If they are so smart...  toadlife | 12/13/05
Because they are arrogant and naive, like most Linux users.  itanal | 12/14/05
Actually  georgep_z | 12/14/05
True, Mozilla needs to get the auto-update working for sure.  DonnieBoy | 12/14/05
Actually  nECrO_z | 12/13/05
let them get hacked  Jeff Spicoli | 12/13/05
You are forgeting that ...  wackoae | 12/13/05
right  Real World | 12/14/05
MOST  nECrO_z | 12/14/05
Don't assume their level of knowledge.  Grayson Peddie | 12/14/05
Fixed in Firefox 1.0.5?? That was about a year ago.  wackoae | 12/13/05
More like six months ago  zmud | 12/14/05
Whats the point exactly?  JoeMama_z | 12/13/05
Interesting how the Mozilla team downplayed this vulnerabilty  toadlife | 12/13/05
Most Firefox users  SQLServer | 12/14/05
Leads me to a question  NonZealot | 12/14/05
Successful Exploits  bhartman36 | 12/14/05
You're wrong  toadlife | 12/14/05
Wrong (corrected post - hopefully)  toadlife | 12/14/05
(nt)looks like they finally decided to update the vulerability to critical  toadlife | 12/14/05
Microsoft says so  georgep_z | 12/14/05
It doesn't matter georgie  toadlife | 12/14/05
Everyone is on 1.0.7 if not 1.5 by now!!!  xunil skcor | 12/14/05
Actually, I'm still running 1.04  worknman | 12/14/05
Advances in 1.5  nucrash | 12/14/05
How to get old extentions to work with FF1.5 Here we go: 1) change  wexwimpy@... | 12/15/05
No probably, everybody updates as soon as a point  Boot_Agnostic | 12/14/05
memory handling bug in FF 1.5?  davagain | 12/15/05

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