# Spyware Barely Touches Firefox **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-barely-touches-firefox/178450 "2006-02-10T17:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-barely-touches-firefox/178450/1 "2006-02-10T17:03:07Z")
link: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060210/tc\_cmp/179102616](http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060210/tc_cmp/179102616) > Internet Explorer users can be as much as 21 times more likely to end up with a spyware-infected PC than people who go online with Mozilla’s Firefox browser, academic researchers from Microsoft’s backyard said in a recently published paper. “We can’t say whether Firefox is a safer browser or not,” said Henry Levy, one of the two University of Washington professors who, along with a pair of graduate students, created Web crawlers to scour the Internet for spyware in several 2005 forays. “But we can say that users will have a safer experience [surfing] with Firefox.”… Microsoft’s made a point to stress that Internet Explorer 7, which just went into open beta for Windows XP, tightens up ActiveX controls by disabling nearly all those already installed. IE 7 then alerts the user and requires consent before it will run an in-place control… an article worth reading.