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Report: IE9 safest browser against malware | |
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| Time: 11:22 EST/16:22 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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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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| #1 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 8/15/2011 12:50:00 PM |
| And yet every infection I see came in through IE. I have yet to see one come in through FireFox. |
| #2 By 8556 (173.29.0.175) at 8/15/2011 2:07:03 PM |
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#1: I "blocks" 99.2% of live threats. Without knowing exactly what total number of live threats was thrown at it, I will use the low-ball figure of 30 million malware files/programs. Some AV companies claim the figure is higher. That means that only 2.4 million malware files/malware can make it past IE9. This is a meaningless report to which I threw out even more meaningless numbers. I trust that the point is made that IE's 99.2% rate sucks. Sandbox any browser and stop 100% of web delivered, non-email, malware.
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