Email clients

[Potatoman]

Security-wise, what is better:- Outlook 2003 or Firefox?

[dodgyshirt]

Firefox is a web browser not an email client. Mozilla`s email programme is called Thunderbird which can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org/ along with Firefox. I would say that both of Mozilla`s offerings offer better security than their Microsoft counterparts-until the hackers decide to ruin them as well because of their new-found popularity.

[Potatoman]

Sorrym thunderbird is what i meant!

[stevie21]

I'd tend to assume that Microsoft's most popular competitors are more secure than MS in most cases.
In saying that, you could configure any program to be a security nightmare so the user is the least secure thing on a computer.

[WoWo]

I'd imagine there are just as many security holes in FireFox as their are in IE. There just aren't the same number of people hell bent on hacking it.



Not convinced.... read this



http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/wlg/6459 />

Not slagging it off, I actually like it but can't wait to take delivery of my Mac and leave the security flaw that is Windows behind.

[WoWo]

opps try this http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/wlg/6459

[stevie21]

woohoo, one report of a flaw which has been reported to affect EVERY browser? I've not yet been convinced that IE is immune from this despite "some" reports.
Good luck world, this seems quite a sinister infiltration : the one where www.paypal.com looks exactly like
www.paypal.com!

[WoWo]

As I said I use Firefox so I wasn't pointing out the bug to say you shouldn't use it over IE. When Firefox first came out it took 2 days for somebody to find a critical security bug.

The point was that there are a million and one hackers hell bent on the destruction of Microsoft. As single character goes amiss and it's literally on the BBC.

If you think there's just one security flaw in Firefox your mistaken there's plenty. A quick search in google will show you it's just as prone to such things as IE.