News; Symantec shelling Microsoft thinks about safety far beyond the I

Symantec says last year 8 to 12 months, Firefox has 40 a loophole be revealed, at the same time, IE 54 holes was disclosed. For the whole 2006 speaking, two browser performance throughout the year, Firefox has little difference was found vulnerabilities has 87, and IE is 92.

According to the statistical data of symantec security company, the second half of 2006 Mozilla Firefox browser is batch of the company's vulnerability to Microsoft's IE browser less than 26%.

Symantec says last year 8 to 12 months, Firefox has 40 a loophole be revealed, at the same time, IE 54 holes was disclosed. For the whole 2006 speaking, two browser performance throughout the year, Firefox has little difference was found vulnerabilities has 87, and IE is 92.

Firefox loopholes in the second half of the 15% less than the first half, the second half of the year and IE loopholes increased 42% than the first half. The trend of the development of the tend to value Firefox.

And, Mozilla developer patch up the holes faster than average fast 5 times. Microsoft Firefox processing 26 test loophole, found to patch up the holes from holes in just two days. By contrast, Microsoft deal with 15 test holes but with up to 10 days.

Symantec security response in charge of VincentWeafer said: "the web browser is the biggest can open up areas, it along with the development of the backend database is more and more important, and network application software also become more and more popular."

The latest data show, IE browser occupies 79.1% market share, Firefox row was the second rank, accounted for 14.2%.