Originally Posted by CyR

Nothing really special in that report.

Windows: Idiots use IE.
MacOS: Idiots use Safari.

It's the standard thing installed on both OS', so in turn if the user had a clue, they would install something that wouldn't be targeted first by exploits. I use both OS' and I don't use either of those browsers.

Currently there's a few exploits going around that involve little to no user interaction on behalf of IE's wide variety of exploitable holes. I'm not saying that either OS is better than the other, it's more a scary fact that a majority of surfers (the ones that we target) have next to no idea about browser/OS security and are running around with hijacked machines.

In other words the more out of the spotlight your browser is, and the more the developers fix and update their software, the chance of your machine getting exploited due to some well known unpatched hole.

Random trivia: Back in the day, due to certain IE vulnerabilities you were able to grab a surfers complete MSN contacts list (emails and all) just from them surfing to your page. What a wonderful world we lived in.... not!