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

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.

 

The link isn't working for me.

 

I just tested it - works for me.

 

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

 

You're welcome - enjoy .

 

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

 

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

 

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".