Another Report Finds Internet Explorer 8 To Be The Most Secure Web Browser

[Osiris]

Another Report Finds Internet Explorer 8 To Be The Most Secure Web Browser

A web browsing security test that pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3, Opera 10, Safari 4 and Google Chrome 4 came to the conclusion that Internet Explorer 8 is the most secure web browser, at least in the area that were tested by security research company NSS Labs. The report, which is available at the company’s website for download was sponsored by Microsoft’s online security engineering team and later send to marketing after the results have been published.
The test analyzed the web browser’s phishing protection. Both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 (that is Firefox 3.0.11 and not Firefox 3.5) managed to score an average block rate of 83% and 80% during the 14 days of testing. Opera 10 managed to block 54%, Google Chrome 26% and Safari a whopping 2%.

[hikaricloud]

Gee, I'm so surprised.

[james.wired]

Originally Posted by Osiris

The report, which is available at the company’s website for download was sponsored by Microsoft’s online security engineering team and later send to marketing after the results have been published.

I still like ff..

[feranm_ie8team]

Hi, this is Feran with the Internet Explorer Outreach Team. You can see the entire NSS study at Comparative Browser Security Testing - Phishing & Socially Engineered Malware*-*nsslabs.com or read more about it at the IEBlog as well: IEBlog.

[Trotter]

That's nice. :/

Of course anyone can cherry-pick tests to get whatever result you want. No real surprises there.