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Old 02-10-2006, 08:31 AM   #1
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LXer: Spyware Barely Touches Firefox


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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. "We can't say whether Firefox is a safer browser or not," said Henry Levy, one of the two University of Washington professors who, along with a pair of graduate students, created Web crawlers to scour the Internet for spyware in several 2005 forays. "But we can say that users will have a safer experience [surfing] with Firefox."

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Old 02-10-2006, 05:18 PM   #2
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That is a GREAT article; their approach is objective and they just present the facts without condemning MSIE, letting the evidence speak for itself.
 
  


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