For a much more accurate take on the Mac security front, try this article or this one.
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Part of the problem lies in the Web browser that many Mac users rely upon -- Internet Explorer. "I think it is almost time to rename Internet Explorer the 'Internet Exploiter,'" said Rohit Dhamankar, manager of security research at TippingPoint, a division of the networking firm, 3Com (Nasdaq: COMS) . "The trend of more vulnerabilities being discovered has been increasing during the last six months."
Hilarious... I don't know of ANY OS X users that are relying on "Internet Explorer" for anything... it hasn't been updated since Noah got off the Ark.
MacDailyNews' response to this FUD article follows:
MacDailyNews Take: We're just going to stop the Koprowski BS Express right in its tracks at this random point of ridiculousness. Our stats show the browsers in use to access MacDailyNews (which obviously receives a high concentration of Mac users) in the month of April 2006 as follows: 63% for Safari / Safari RSS / "Mozilla Compatible Agent," 13% for Firefox, 6% for NetNewsWire, 6% for Internet Explorer, 3% for MacReporter, 0.77% for Camino, etc. You get the point: even with a large group of Mac users stuck on Windows machines at work and using IE, our stats show just 6% accessing our site via IE (about which we're extremely happy, BTW), so Koprowski's statement that "many Mac users rely upon Internet Explorer" is as wrong as wrong gets - just like the rest of the FUD contained in his "report." What's Koprowski going to do next, an exposé on how it's likely going to pour rain every day in Phoenix according to Arizona-based umbrella manufacturers and retailers?
Even that 6% for Internet Explorer is questionable... I often set my Safari Agent to masquerade as a PC Internet Explorer 6.0 on the web to allow it to go to sites that use some of Microsoft's proprietary junk coding. I know several other Mac/Safari users who do the same. The app that gathers the statistics will see our Safari using Macs as Internet Explorer using PCs... ;^)>
For a much more accurate take on the Mac security front, try this article or this one.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
iCab; Camino is also pretty nice.
I use Safari almost exclusively, except for running Firefox simultaneously so I can browse uninterrupted when one browser is tied up.
I use tabs like a mad man, and a single browse session could produce up to 6 windows in each browser with tabs running off the edge in each.
Internet Explorer? Heck, I only open it up from time to time so I can access one of the very few web sites on the internet that uses sub par coding, and even then - it has been a year or two since I've had to use Explorer for even that.
FUD is absolutely right... I wonder how much Microsoft stock some of these journalists own...