Security Fixes Come Faster With Mozilla
For at least 38 days in 2005, Internet Explorer was vulnerable to unpatched critical security flaws that were being exploited actively by viruses, worms and spyware. For at least 256 days last year, Internet Explorer contained unpatched vulnerabilities where the exploit method had been publicly disclosed but was not necessarily being used.
By contrast, Firefox users were exposed to potential threats that might take advantage of publicly released exploit code for only 17 days. I could not find any public reports of viruses, spyware or worms using those exploits during the time that the Firefox vulnerabilities were unpatched.
By my count, that makes 70% vulnerability for IE and below 5% for Firefox.
(previous posts: similar figures for 2004, reasons to switch to firefox)
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