IE Wins Malware-Blocking Tests

[James]

The in-house reputation system used in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is markedly superior at blocking social-engineering attacks than the Google equivalent used by Chrome, Firefox, Apple's Safari, an independent test by NSS Labs has found.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235887/i ... k.rss_news

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[Antony]

That's a very good news, considering that IE still has more than half of the browser market share.

Let's hope that IE 6 (and earlier) users would upgrade to IE 8 or 9.

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[James]

Even though I seldom use IE (except at work... where we continue to use IE 8 because our OS is XP and at home IE 9 when some sites won't render properly in Chrome), I also view this as good news for the same reason, Antony. No doubt there will be folks who will dispute these findings (there always are the "unbelievers") but for the majority who use IE as well as for the rest of us who simply want a safer browsing experience, it is good news.

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