IE 9 Beats Other Browsers at Blocking Malicious Content

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 has proved once again to be the best choice when it comes to catching attacks (http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1803) aimed at making the user download Web-based malware. This claim was made by NSS Labs in the recently released results (https://www.nsslabs.com/assets/noreg-reports/2011/nss%20labs_q3_2011_browsersem%20GLOBAL-FINAL.pdf) (PDF) of a test conducted globally from May 27 through June 10 of the current year, which saw five of the most popular Web browsers pitted against each other. Windows Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome 12, Mozilla Firefox 4, Apple Safari 5, and Opera 11 were tested with 1,188 malicious URLs — links that lead to a download that delivers a malicious payload or to a website hosting malware links."

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