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Uh... you are going by the number of advisories, which is pretty meaningless. If you scrolled down just a bit you would have found 1595 virus threats related to IE vs. 18 (yes, one-eight) for FF. Also, some of the advisories are listed as "multiple threats," so many threats could be wrapped into one advisory.
[Edit] Actually, I just looked again and many of the 1595 are bogus hits just based on an OR word match. Still, just quickly browsing through the first couple of pages turns up more viruses related to IE than all of the FF hits combined. Also, since IE is so tightly integrated into the OS, I would contend that the damage threat is higher. Risk analysis has to take into account both probability and severity.
Last edited by happycampers; 11-19-2007 at 10:24 PM.
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