Browsers are safe?

Mozilla's free browser FireFox "received" 26% of the security flaws, less than the giant's Internet Explorer, which is at the top of the list of "Gods", according to the latest security firm analysis. Symantec.

According to the analysis, from August to December 2006, FireFox has 40 security flaws while Internet Explorer has 54 errors. Opera and Safari (browser for users of Mac OS X systems from Apple) only have 4 errors.

However, FireFox is still not the best browser because considering it in 2006, the browser has 87 errors and Internet Explorer has 92 errors. July 2006 is the month with the most confidential errors with many dangerous errors. Symantec also assessed that Mozilla has five times faster response to security errors than Microsoft. Mozilla only took 2 days to release patches for 26 security bugs while Microsoft had to spend 10 days on 15 bugs.

" Web browsers continue to be good prey to exploit ," said Vincent Weafer, Symantec's director of security issues. The 'pie' browser market share is gradually changing. Internet Explorer accounted for 79.1%, FireFox 14.2%, followed by Safari and Opera that shared 3rd, 4th with 4.9% and 0.79%.

Users must be vigilant when accessing strange websites because hackers can exploit browser security flaws to access the resources on the computer and note the automatic update of the latest patches for the program. My browser. You can refer to Symantec's regular analysis tables here.

Tuyet Phan