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Opening the annual RSA Conference yesterday, Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates said that a beta of IE 7.0 will be available "by early summer" for download on machines running Windows XP Service Pack 2.
If Firefox gets popular enough, I'm sure that there will be more than enough exploits for it in the making- and then there will be patches galore, just like the big Micro.
Just MHO.
All the best,
Larry
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Not necessarily, Larry. That assumes that Firefox has as many exploitable defects as IE. While that may or may not be true, Firefox has the benefit of being open source. A lot more people have had a lot more opportunity to find and exploit (or fix!) flaws in Firefox than in IE. Based on that, you would expect there to be many exploits already.
The fact that there aren't suggests that Firefox (and its development process) are inherently more secure and less exploitable than IE. The old "security through obscurity" saw doesn't hold up in this case.
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I think it's probably true that more malicious hackers will be attracted as FF's user base grows. That doesn't necessarily mean that more exploitable defects will be discovered though. There are a lot of eyes on the code already.
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It boils down to info,which ever browser is number one that will be the one that will be attacked simply because that will be the vehicle allot of info travels in so if its Firefox a year from now people will be saying the same thing about it they do about IE now.People should learn to exercise caution will browsing the net rather that would stop allot of this sort of thing.Do you really think JoeBlow gives a crap which browser he uses to look over T&A?Or do you actually think he reads the warnings and message screens that pop up before he hit sure infest the h+ll out of my machine?No he don't he just wants ease of use,so at the end of the day do you think he gives a crap about security? The only think that matter to him is whether or not his machine will boot up the next time he shuts it off.When it don't then and only then does he give a crap about spyware and the likes.I've seen it to many times before to not believe this.I used porn as an example but it not only porn sites that are guilty, but most of the computers I fix where spyware is the problem all you have to do is search their drives and the nuddy pics and those low quality T&A media files are usually there too.So like I pointed out above "People should learn to exercise caution" and till that day comes this problem will not go away.
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