IE9 with SmartScreen Continues to Lead Malware Protection

Discussion in 'Software' started by Major Attitude, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    NSS Labs, an independent security research and testing organization, released two reports today that show SmartScreen continues to offer industry-leading protection against socially engineered malware. According to the global test conducted by NSS, “IE9 caught an exceptional 96% of the live threats with SmartScreen URL reputation, and an additional 3.2% with Application Reputation.” The graph below compares the test results from various browsers and shows that Internet Explorer blocks up to seven times more malware than other browsers in the global test.

    http://majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=30194
     
    Major Attitude, Aug 16, 2011
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  2. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    First I hear of SmartScreen, not that I need it. Since I'm looking at other browsers ATM, I may as well check out IE 9 as I haven't used IE since ver. 6
     
    augiedoggie, Aug 16, 2011
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  3. sikvik

    sikvik Corporal Karma

    Ditto.:) Since MA posted the graph, I'm sure there is some method- to it's madness. ;)
    Cheers..
     
    sikvik, Aug 16, 2011
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  4. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Love to see the test with FF 5 (or even FF 3.6.20) since FF4 is not supported because of security issues. Rather than try and patch Mozilla scraped it and upped the build to 5.
     
    plodr, Aug 16, 2011
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  5. iain.t

    iain.t MajorGeek

    I've been using IE9 since it was at beta stage and I love it ;), I have not had any issue of infection/malware attack, it automatically scans files/downloads with smartscreen and warns if they could potentially be unsafe.A lot of people slate IE for what it lacks in security/browser protection, but now this test shows otherwise ;), it has proven it to be the strongest of the browsers tested by far!!
     
    iain.t, Aug 16, 2011
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