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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
I'm curious if anybody with FF has been "hacked"? Many claim dire results if the updates are not performed religiously........but, what's the real situation?
Sure, somebody........somewhere had it happen one time.......that doesn't define the level of risk.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/030909-mozilla-patches-fastest.html
You will see that FF is not as secure as they claim and more and more hacks are targeted toward this browser. The fact that its getting popular also is one of the reasons for the increasing number of attacks. FF's earlier premise was that it was designed to be hack proof, now they don't claim that anymore and instead harp on their patch issue speed.
No browser is bullet proof but as per Secunia, one of the oldest browser Opera is the safest having the least number of holes.
Patching the OS is necessary regardless of using a secure browser, there are other OS related exploits that can be pertained to security as well.