nuqneH, On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:00:30PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote: > > > IMHO the biggest thing that makes Firefox on Linux more secure than IE > on Windows is that you don't run Firefox as root/administrator, so when > it gets hacked, it doesn't 0wn the machine. Actually there is only one major difference: you cannot be rootkited (unless there is an exploit that fits, and if you are running X11 with all modern software bells'n'whistles , there probably is) . >From other points of view owning a sole user on the machine does not differ much. (Do they still run web browser as administrator? I think XP was designed not to do that?)
