To provide a safer Web experience, browser makers today include reputation systems to filter out socially-engineered malware and according to a new study released Tuesday, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) offers the most robust protection.
Conducted by independent network testing and security consultancy firm, NSS Labs, the study revealed IE9 blocked off an "exceptional" 99.2 percent of live threats thrown at it globally, between May 27 and Jun. 10 this year. Comparatively, Google's Chrome 12, which came in second out of five browsers evaluated, managed to ward off 13.2 percent of the malware, while Mozilla's Firefox 4 and Apple's Safari 5 tied at third with 7.6 percent. Opera 11 came in last at 6.1 percent.
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