Sunday 7 January 2007

Do You Use Firefox?

If you don't, why not? According to Brian Krebs , from the Washington Post, Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 Days in 2006. Firefox by comparison was unsafe for 9 days!
"For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet."
"Mozilla's Firefox browser -- experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem."
Why do people persist with IE, especially considering most of us use online financial services such as, Internet banking, shopping, ebay, etc? If you have not tried Firefox you can download it here. It is a smallish download and costs nothing.
Happy surfing.

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