Internet Explorer 2006 - 9 Months of Vulnerability
If you use Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows it appears that you spent 9 months open to being hacked on your computer.
For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users.
On the other side, Firefox had a single 9 day window of vulnerability to an exploit.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Also, when you admit it to your friends you become a social pariah.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I thought admitting it’s a problem was the first stage to recovery.
cheers!
Chris