incrediBILL - 5:40 pm on Jan 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

but how many users actually suffer substantial harm from these vulnerabilities

Stu, using a browser with more active vulnerabilities just because it renders better is ill advised. I'm on a couple of botnet mailing lists (people that FIGHT them, not people that run them) and the number of compromised machines out there is scary.

Not that FF or Opera are more secure, they just have fewer active exploits sitting on websites waiting for the right opportunity.

I can show you one webhost with hundreds (thousands?) of infected websites just waiting to attack your browser.

If one of the exploits is successful, they might even install a line like "127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantec.com" into your hosts file, and then the REAL fun starts.

FWIW, I just spent a couple of weeks fighting a botnet attacking one of my servers and about half of the botnet was other servers, the other half came from DSL and cable modem IP addresses.

Enjoy your rendering.