RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk

Paul Schmehl to Larry Seltzer:

> My completely non-scientific, unsupported-by-empirical-evidence answer is
> no. It's because people who use Firefox tend to be more aware of security
> threats and the need to keep software up to date. It could also be (at
> least in part) because Firefox has a built-in, enabled-by-default, update
> available warning system.

I would agree with both those reasons and add that FF updates are not
hampered by the disabling of the inbuilt (and often seriously mistrusted)
OS auto-update mechanisms.

I also _suspect_ that a lot of pirated copies of Windows probably have
system updates disabled.

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald
Received on Jul 02 2008