Yawn.
I dont have time to look over the expolits but I would be interested to know how many of them require pebkac...
In reference to the article, one of the points they make is that Firefox has been hacked because of it's reputation as being invulnerable to hacking. When talking about OSX, though, no one ever makes the point, which I've wondered about for a while, that even though, like Firefox, OSX has a much smaller installation base, making a successful hack would make the hacker a pop culture hero in the hacking world. So, wouldn't OSX also be a target for hackers that wanted to prove their hacking brilliance.
That aside, I like Firefox because of the smaller footprint and tabbed browsing. Most of the enhanced security (I don't know much about browser internals), seems to me, though, can be replicated in IE by turning off specific features. Active-X, for example, simply isn't available in Firefox, which makes Active-X exploits pretty difficult on the browser. Active-X controls, though available on IE, can easily be disabled at various levels, and turning them off completely makes IE just as invulnerable to Active-X exploits as Firefox, while maintaining the ability to use Active-X when dealing with trusted sites.
Honestly, I never obsessed over viruses and worms when I ran Windows, but used reasonable precautions, and I have never had an infection (except that the Ethan Fromme virus got loose on campus, but that was a fairly harmless Word exploit), and I've probably received about a hundred documents with it attached. Norton catches and strips it, though).
Anyway, hadn't heard from you for a while, and wanted to say hi.