In Your face 2 - Vista Protected Mode, IE7, IE6.x way secure than FF,Opera and Flash Player

This is the seconed episode of IN YOUR FACE this time, Donna has just posted about a little test she did with some security scanners like BigFix to discover that from over than 44,000 program inspectors discoverd 35% insecure versions.

just pointing out that the inspectors discoverd only 4.12% of IE6.x version insecure - thanks to Windows Update - and that FireFox 1.x has 35.47% insecured version installed and used everyday.

Also scanning 7 programs including IE7 on Vista Protected Mode the insecure version found = 0 which is great not only for the 0 number but also for that Vista have no security updates yet so this is raw Vista.

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Published Tue, Dec 12 2006 1:31 PM by Adel Khalil
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# re: In Your face 2 - Vista Protected Mode, IE7, IE6.x way secure than FF,Opera and Flash Player

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:53 AM by Ramon Smits
Well bravo for the excellent scan results regarding FF NOT :) Most people use the auto-update functionality of FF thus are running 2.x for some time now. The total number of installs of 1.5 can probably be ignored compared to 2.x+ installs. So if those installs are not updated then it is quite obvious that those contain bugs and/or security issues. I want to see numbers with version numbers and OS indicators.. not percentages!

# re: In Your face 2 - Vista Protected Mode, IE7, IE6.x way secure than FF,Opera and Flash Player

Monday, June 25, 2007 10:56 PM by chris

LOL - if you're looking for relative percentages, everyone can already tell you that practically nobody uses FF - IE6/7 rule the market, and for good reason - no sane person would install that bug-ridden, incompatible hack - go get IE7 and see you web site the same way all your customers do.  And safely.

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