Firefox by Mozilla is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. What led a lot of people to abandon the Microsoft product were the flaws that allowed spyware and other unwelcome guest to penetrate Internet Explorer.
There is an article on CNet called, “Ups and downs for Firefox”. As Firefox becomes more widely used, hackers and their criminal counterparts called crackers, are finding more ways to penetrate its weaknesses. Firefox was pretty much ignored by the criminal element when fewer people were using the product.
Will Mozilla be able to counter by issuing security patches for Firefox? Don’t look now, but Firefox is about to really get hosed. The CNet stories are here and here.
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