[pchelpers] News:Browser Alternatives Are No Guarantee of Security

Firefox, Opera, and Mozilla have their own vulnerabilities--and their 
own collections of necessary fixes.

Andrew Brandt
 From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2005

If you use an alternative browser--Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, or anything 
not named Internet Explorer--you may be feeling pretty smug these days. 
Every time you hear about another patch for IE or about another way 
hackers use that browser to attack unsuspecting Web users, you think to 
yourself, "I don't have to worry."

Well, think again. The fact is, alternatives like Firefox have security 
problems of their own. And even if you don't use Internet Explorer for 
your everyday browsing, you still have to keep it patched: Those 
ever-creative hackers have found ways to enter your system through 
Firefox, and then exploit IE.

More here:
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120768,00.asp

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