Has ie9 really been secured enough?

Hi.. so i did a scan through secunia psi... and found something rather interesting,

while ie9 was all green for secure browsing, firefox 4 has some attack vectors apparently...there's something you dont see everyday. or is this old news and i'm just noticing now.

 

It's probably the WebGL exploit which updating to v5 fixes. Secunia PSI is NOT a sign of the security of a browser, simply a record of known exploits and whether they have been patched by the vendor, and by you.

 

How is that not a sign of security in the browser if one of them is shown to be patched against certain attacks and one isn't?

And yes, out of the box I'd say that IE9 is far more secure than Firefox.

 

i guess all known holes patched IS a sign of security, at least when the user's discretion is not involved...eg. falling for social engineering attacks and such.

 

IE8 was already secure enough, but anyways Secunia made a mistake by stating no solutions when Firefox 5 has been released 2 days ago.

 

i wasn't aware of this...rarely use ff and neither did it notify me of any updates.

edit: i had checked around 24 hrs back, its now listed ff4 as eol.

 

IMO, unless a user runs the ActiveX Filtering in IE9 (which is not the default), it's not as safe as I would want it to be. (And it would still have that butt ugly GUI!)

 

well i prefer the "butt ugly GUI" of ie9 to that of ff4... a matter of personal preference..that and the excellent hardware acceleration.
and yeah i'm using the activex filtering as well as tracking protection..so i guess its the browser that i'm sticking to.

 

Could say the same for firefox addons for which any website can try force you to install.

 

As people said, i consider IE 9 to be more secure out of the box. But i don't really know

 

Hi,

Looking at the screenshot... the vulnerability in question appears to be Secunia SA44972. It looks like the software you are using simply informs the user if there are any known vulnerabilities that are unpatched.

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