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  Microsoft's IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
Time: 08:19 EST/13:19 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Andi Stabryla

A study prepared by NSS Labs concludes that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 blocks virtually all socially engineered malware, far more than rival browsers. The study was designed to examine one aspect of security: how a browser handled a malicious URL, such as one received in a posting on a social network or an email. The NSS goal was to find the browser which identified, warned, and/or blocked malicious URLs from being viewed by the user.

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