Steve Thornburg

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Thanks! to Secunia for providing excellent application vulnerability and virus information, which helps protect millions of computer users world-wide. Secunia serves as a world leader in the IT security arena, but goes way beyond serving their client base. Their continued efforts to inform and educate users should serve as a model for all of us to be more responsible in our respective communities. Secunia deserves the highest degree of regard, and I urge those in a position to do so to support them.

This page contains information regarding current and historical application security statistics regarding Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Each category is presented in a side-by-side format, to help you see a direct comparison of the two products. Bear in mind that this data goes back to year 2003, but that Firefox was not available at that time. Hence there are fewer data points for Firefox than for Internet Explorer. Note also that at the time of this publication Microsoft Internet Explorer represented approximately 60 percent of browser usage, and Firefox was approximately 25 percent. See Web Statistics and Trends for current information. The charts below will automatically be updated each month. This data was first presented here in June of 2006.


The "Month by Month" graph above shows the number of issued Secunia advisories affecting the application of interest on a month-by-month basis.

The "Solution Status" pie graph above shows the percentages of "Unpatched", "Vendor Patched", "Vendor Workaround" and "Partial Fixed" Secunia advisories affecting the application of interest.

The "Criticality" pie graph above shows the percentages of "Extremely", "Highly", "Moderately", "Less", and "Not" critical Secunia advisories affecting the application of interest.

The "Where" pie graph above shows the percentages of "From remote", "From local network", and "Local system" Secunia advisories affecting the application of interest.

The "Impact" pie graph above shows the percentages of all Secunia Impact categories based on Secunia advisories affecting the application of interest.