Study of effectiveness of malware reputation services used by 6 web browsers

[MrBrian]

NSS Labs has released a study of the effectiveness of the malware reputation services used by 6 web browsers. When the user visits a site, the browser's malware reputation service indicates whether the site serves malware or not. Note that this is not a test of web browser protection against "drive-by downloads". It is a test of whether the browser informs the user that the site may be serving malware.

Here are the results:

Microsoft IE 8 (Release Candidate 1): 69%
Firefox 3.07: 30%
Safari v3: 24%
Chrome 1.0.154: 16%
Opera 9.64: 5%
Microsoft IE 7: 4%

Details found here (http://nsslabs.com/anti-malware/browser-security).

[Judge Dee]

The link isn't working for me.

[MrBrian]

I just tested it - works for me.

[Judge Dee]

Now it's working for me, MrBrian.
Thanks for checking and re-posting!

[MrBrian]

You're welcome - enjoy :).

[TechOutsider]

Doesn't Firefox use Google's blacklist? I know Internet Explorer uses the SmartScreen filter, which does some post-processing with a blacklist right?

[innerpeace]

I didn't know it was the browsers job to alert about malware ::).

[aigle]

Wait for all browsers to be loaded with malware and url scanners, in the cloud scanning etc.

Just like we are now used to having HIPS with firewalls.

[m00nbl00d]

-{ Quote: "Wait for all browsers to be loaded with malware and url scanners, in the cloud scanning etc.

Just like we are now used to having HIPS with firewalls." }-

Despite, as we know, and is more than beaten, such task not being the obligation of a web browser, it sure would be a big plus.

I'm all for all means to fight the dark side, "Luke". ;)