ID: IRCNE2011071195
Date: 2011-07-25
According to "zdnet", According to a newly released research by NSS Labs, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 greatly outperforms competing browsers in an examine against socially-engineered malware. Based on an active testing against 615 malicious URLs for 19 days, both Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 8 topped the comparative chart.
Here are the findings:
- Windows Internet Explorer 9 - IE9 caught an exceptional 92% of the live threats
- Windows Internet Explorer 8 - caught 90% of the live threats
- Apple Safari 5 - caught 13% of the live threats
- Google Chrome 10 - caught 13% of the live threats
- Mozilla Firefox 4 - caught 13% of the live threats
- Opera 11 - caught 5% of the live threats.
Byexcluding client-side vulnerabilities, the study isn’t assessing IE8’s DEP/NX memory protection, as well as omitting ClickJacking defenses and IE8’s XSS filter. Socially engineered malware is not the benchmark for a comprehensive assessment of a browser’s malware block rate.
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