Study: Firefox users most secure on Internet

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla Firefox users are most secure on the Internet, according to a new web study appeared in media reported on Thursday. The study, "Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the insecurity iceberg," was a collaborative ... by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM Internet Security Services. Altogether, the study found that failure to update browsers exponentially increased the chance for remote attacks executed by hackers, but some 60 percent (59.fully patched Web browsers. Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest version, with an overwhelming 83.browser on any given day. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer users ranked last in terms of safe browsing. Less than half of IE users -- 47.were running the most secure browser version during the same time period. The study also revealed that the majority of Safari between December 2007 and June 2008, after Safari version 3 became available. Opera ranked slightly higher than IE, with about 56 percent of users who said that they had applied the latest version of the browser to their computer. Of the four browsers surveyed, Firefox has captured 227 million users and IE has 1.1 billion so far, encompassing 16.3 percent of the market respectively.ranks the last in popularity with 11 million.

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