Originally Posted by click sidious
Actually that's backwards. IE has been out longer, thus had much much much much much much MUCH more time to correct it's flaws, yet it still suffers from tons of problems.
Software develops over time. It does not have a preset number of vulnerabilities which disappear over time. If this was true, we would be using vastly older software than we do.
As updates and patches are added, new vulnerabilities are created These are discovered and patched, and so on.
Originally Posted by mayonaise
you're talking about the number of people taking advantage of a security problem that has already been found. that IE has more people willing to exploit it's security problems does not mean that it is less secure. it is the fact that those problems exist in the first place that makes it less secure.
Who do you think finds security problems? The most popular software has the most users finding its problems.
All software has vulnerabilities.