WebProNews.com -- absolute NO idea about decent journalism!

This is the 3rd appallingly bad, unresearched article I've read on "WebProNews" in the last couple of months. Enough is enough.

Avoid WebProNews! There's absolutely nothing "pro" about it, obviously it's just a group of hacks who love the sounds of their own voices.

The linked article claims Firefox is less secure than IE due to the number of security threats logged against it at Secunia, which was greater than for IE, in the previous 6 months.

Reasons this is just garbage & that they obviously have no clue what they're talking about:

• The blog it quoted from took its figures from Secunia. Not that WebProNews bothered to mention that, instead quoting the blogger as an official source.
• Checking the relevant pages on Secunia for Firefox and IE, show that a fully patched Firefox is rated in the green ("Less Critical", a "2" on a scale of 1-5, 5 being the worst) while a fully patched IE is STILL rated in the RED ("Highly critical", "4" on the same 1-5 scale).
• 19 out of 85 Secunia advisories for IE are marked as "Unpatched", while only 3 out of 23 Secunia advisories for Fx have the same status.
• IE6 is almost FIVE YEARS OLD now. And people are still finding security faults.
• Mozilla have fixed all critical security issues within a fortnight of their being listed, while Microsoft are still struggling to address bugs & leaks from years gone by.
• IE is completely intertwined with the Microsoft Windows operating system (any flavour. For example, it provides the UI for Windows Explorer & the Control Panel, to name just one alternate role) such that issues with IE can allow direct access to the operating system for hackers.
  
• There are soooo many more good points about Firefox than just its far better security features than IE. The security "issue" is just one small reason why people are trumpeting the benefits of Firefox. IE simply cannot match Firefox in other (read: "any other") areas. Extensibility, customisation, speed & autonomy are just a few of such factors.
• The facts speak for themselves. I have NEVER had a virus, nor a piece of spyware/adware/trojan or other on my computer! Not a one. I have also never used IE (except when site testing), and have never used Outlook as my default email client. Related? Absolutely. It's a simple case of cause & effect, my dear Watson.
• the WebProNews page on which this article appears (actually, any page on their site, for that matter) is 75% ads, 25% content. Shows what their motivating factors are.

There was another ZDNet article recently that summed up the situation perfectly with the following quote:

If Firefox is still coming up with double-digit exploits four years after launch, then we'll know it's as bad as IE: until then, simple headline figures are in no way sufficient to help you decide which browser is safer.

As WebProNews so perfectly indicates -- do not believe everything you read on the web.