It turns out that Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox in the term of the users are most likely to apply patches and be using the most secure version.

Read this from the recent articles that was published on the security forum

The researchers who published a large study of web browser security this week had a great idea and excellent data to work with. Too bad they overreached with their conclusions. A lot more is being made of this paper than is warranted.

The researchers, from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM, looked at log data provided by Google from their global user base for web search and applications for the period between January 2007 and June 2008. This data was based on the browser user-agent string, which is also the reason the data is not as telling as the authors argue.

What did the study conclude? First, lots of users are not running the most up-to-date and secure versions of their web browsers. Second, that this is primarily a phenomenon of Internet Explorer users; Firefox users, on the other hand, overwhelmingly update their browsers quickly. These and other results lead the authors to suggest that browsers get expiration dates, much like milk and pharmaceuticals.

The best way to secure your browser is to alway check out for new patches and update it frequently and also when you’re using paypal, use the latest internet explorer, i heard that it is really secure to do transaction using IE.

Enjoy and plz comment……..Thank you