2010 Q1 study of effectiveness of malware reputation services used by 5 web browsers

MrBrian · Mar 6, 2010

From http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000123-264.html:

An updated study has found that when it comes to blocking Web sites used in efforts to trick people into installing malware, Internet Explorer has widened its lead over the four other most-used browsers.

NSS Labs, a product analysis company, issued a third installment of an ongoing study of how well browsers avert socially engineered attacks that try to exploit a person's trust with a Web address that actually installs and runs malware. The upshot: "Windows Internet Explorer 8 provided the best protection against socially engineered malware," stopping 85 percent of the attacks at 562 sites.

In contrast, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7 and Apple Safari 4.0.4 stopped 29 percent, Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 stopped 17 percent, and Opera 10.10 stopped less than 1 percent. All the browsers, except for Opera, showed better results now than on versions of the test conducted six months and a year ago.
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This study includes only "socially-engineered malware." Drive-by downloads are not included in the study.

An earlier installment of the study was discussed here.

elapsed · Mar 6, 2010

85%?!?!? wow, that's pretty extreme. Now if Opera could implement Microsoft SmartScreen I'd be happy... we can all dream right..?

To be fair I'd like to see *any* kind of malware filtering in Opera, would be a nice feature to an already great browser.

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