More on IE and Firefox safety
We are beginning to get more actual studies of browser safety instead of hand-waving or cooked statistics by vested interests. Internet week reports on an academic study of the vulnerability of different browsers to spyware.
Internet Explorer users can be as much as 21 times more likely to end up with a spyware-infected PC than people who go online with Mozilla’s Firefox browser, academic researchers from Microsoft’s backyard said in a recently published paper.
The number 21 quoted above can’t be taken literally since this particular study used unpatched versions of IE and Firefox. But as in a study mentioned previously, the disparity between the two browsers seems too great not to be significant.
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