During a tea break, a colleague of mine happened to mention that Internet Explorer is much better than the Firefox because of it has less vulnerabilities.
Actually this is NOT true... I corrected him as he didn’t aware of the other’s part of story behind.
The fact is that... in the earlier Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec counted only vendor-confirmed bugs when comparing the two browsers. However, it is not accurate as in open source, more vulnerabilities will be acknowledged because of the transparency in development.
In the newest report, which Symantec issued, they had then split the counts into two categories: vendor-confirmed and a combination of vendor- and non-vendor-confirmed flaws. In term of counting vulnerability, this way should be more appropriate & accurate as it includes those made public but not necessarily confirmed by the vendor.
From the report shown this time, the Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer.
Reference:-
http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501752&pgno=1&queryText=
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