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Originally posted by: yukichigai
I could agree with the statement that MS is only targetted because it is the most popular except for one issue: ActiveX. ActiveX isn't something you need to view webpages. In fact most browsers don't use it. Ever. And for all the neat things it may bring to the internet experience it is chock full of security holes, several of which are used by the majority of spyware and browser hijackers out there.

True, if 95% of the world used Firefox there would be a lot more malware written to exploit the code. But I'm fairly certain that there wouldn't be as many glaring malware successes as there are with IE as the dominant browser.
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Maybe, but unless you are intimately familiar with the code behind both browsers, there is really no way to know for sure what kind of possible exploits are waiting to be discovered.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
Originally posted by: yukichigai
I could agree with the statement that MS is only targetted because it is the most popular except for one issue: ActiveX. ActiveX isn't something you need to view webpages. In fact most browsers don't use it. Ever. And for all the neat things it may bring to the internet experience it is chock full of security holes, several of which are used by the majority of spyware and browser hijackers out there.

True, if 95% of the world used Firefox there would be a lot more malware written to exploit the code. But I'm fairly certain that there wouldn't be as many glaring malware successes as there are with IE as the dominant browser.
Click to expand...

Maybe, but unless you are intimately familiar with the code behind both browsers, there is really no way to know for sure what kind of possible exploits are waiting to be discovered.
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Very true. But from a surface perspective Firefox and most other browsers have less protocols to be exploited. IE uses a bunch of things it doesn't need to, particularly ActiveX. Less protocols = less points of attack.
 
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