Busting the botnet-herders

31.10.2005

CWHK:Are any browsers inherently more secure than others?

MH: If we talk about the big three, well, the big two [Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox] and Opera, they all have security vulnerabilities, they all have remote exploits, they're all risky. However, the bad boys are after the biggest markets, so they target IE the most, because it is the most common.

But they're starting to look more and more at Firefox, because its market share is rising. We've seen the first adware that specifically targets Firefox. We've seen websites that check the browser and if it's IE, uses an IE exploit but if it's Firefox, uses a Firefox exploit.

CWHK:How about Apple's Safari browser?

MH:Safari? I actually don't follow Mac that close, because there are no Mac viruses. We used to have a Mac antivirus product, but we discontinued it, because, there are no Mac viruses.