A new study by NSS Labs places Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at the top of the heap when it comes to blocking socially-engineered malware attacks.
With its SmartScreen Filter and Application Reputation technologies enabled, IE9 was able to block 99.2 percent of live threats globally during a test conducted between May 27 and June 10. The test stacked IE up against Google Chrome 12, Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 4 and Opera 11, and included a list of roughly 1,200 malicious URLs.
Despite the fact that all five browsers make use of a reputation system, the other four did not fare nearly as well as IE – Google Chrome caught only 13.2 percent of the malicious URLs, while Safari and Firefox each blocked 7.6 percent. Opera scored the lowest, blocking 6.1 percent, according to the study.
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With its SmartScreen Filter and Application Reputation technologies enabled, IE9 was able to block 99.2 percent of live threats globally during a test conducted between May 27 and June 10. The test stacked IE up against Google Chrome 12, Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 4 and Opera 11, and included a list of roughly 1,200 malicious URLs.
Despite the fact that all five browsers make use of a reputation system, the other four did not fare nearly as well as IE – Google Chrome caught only 13.2 percent of the malicious URLs, while Safari and Firefox each blocked 7.6 percent. Opera scored the lowest, blocking 6.1 percent, according to the study.
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