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To: KwasiOwusu
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"As early as 2000, when Firefox was but a teething babe at the Mozilla programming lab, K-Otic.com had found three exploits for early Mozilla programs, bugs that would apply equally to Firefox, Purita said.

The tally grew to 15 exploits in 2001. It bulged to 27 exploits in 2002, and in 2003, reached 30 known exploits. Last year, the number of exploits nearly doubled."

30 in one year on relatively new code vs. hundreds per year on IE that has been around for a decade or more?

Yes, I understand there are more people hacking away at IE, but come one now, they've been doing it for YEARS and they're still finding things! I'll still stick with Firefox.

40 posted on 01/07/2005 7:43:21 AM PST by SW6906
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To: SW6906
"30 in one year on relatively new code "

Something that's been around at least from 2000 is not "new" code.

Plus malignant code writers and hackers really only concentrated on Firefox in just the past few months when it started getting all that attention.
In fact there are at least probably a hundred times more virus writers on IE than Firefox.
Firefox has really only just BEGUN to be attacked.
Expect the # of vulnerabilities to SHOOT UP exponentially as the malignant hackers really get to work on it.
Firefox security holes will make IE look like Fort Knox!
LMAO!!
43 posted on 01/07/2005 7:54:00 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
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