"Ze Muffinman" <truemuffinman@poetictimes.com> wrote in news:1161999411.033622.104260
@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

> Of course, you won't have to worry about /any/ of that crap if you just
> install Firefox.

Regardless of the browser you use you have to worry about crap. Here is the history of security flaws in FF:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu...abilities.html

No browser is secure and it's relative security varies from day to day, patch to patch. Even the head security
person at Mozilla will not state the FF is more secure than IE:

http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-6117...=st.util.print

I would argue that the biggest security risk with a properly maintained system is not the software you use but
the person at the keyboard. To illustrate this point:

http://outside.arc.ab.ca/staff/erkamp/security.jpg

Social engineering will defeat most 'secure' systems, just ask Kevin Mitnick.