Spyware Barely Touches Firefox - Yahoo! News
February 13th, 2006 | by Chris |I always knew this…
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.”
Spyware Barely Touches Firefox - Yahoo! News
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