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IE Blows Away Rivals in Browser Security
IvanIV
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IE Blows Away Rivals in Browser Security meaning socially-engineered attacks.
"Windows Internet Explorer 9 (still in beta) caught an exceptional 99 percent of the live threats..."
"Windows Internet Explorer 9 (still in beta) caught an exceptional 99 percent of the live threats..."
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The small child in me is giggling right now.
On topic though, I've been using the IE9 beta for a while now and much prefer it to all the other browsers I've used. Glad to see the security is up to snuff as security exploits has always been a thorn in IE's side.
The thing is reputations take a long time to repair and also it's not been out long.
Remember how Vista was the most secure operating system etc it takes time for vulnerabilities to be found, security will be proven over time not overnight.
All that proves it that nobody is writing code to exploit IE9, whether it remains robust security wise against a large install base and over time will be found out over the course of time.
I do have a couple of little issues with IE9beta. Firstly it makes you remove IE8, which is stupid when it's still in beta. And no XP support is just daft when every other browser supports XP with no problems.
I know what you mean. You see it on just about every forum when someone has an IE problem and it's not helpful.
How do you really prove the security? real security can only be proven over time once the bad guys have had the chance to find the vulnerable parts.
Come back in a year and then you might be able to make some security claims about IE9.
But a Google Chrome prisoner would find out that they 'accidently' took data from their unsecured waste from their bed pans :-p
It's because of the way HTML5 features are implemented. And rather than port it back to XP they decided to use it as a push towards Windows 7.
I thought they were using a display renderer that is only available in Vista+
Direct2D? They use it for rendering regardless of HTML5, what I thought and did not formulate well that it was necessary to use something better for rendering to be able to implement HTML5.
Avira went crazy
I was using Chrome- now i'm thinking of going back to IE as this has happened more on Firefox and Chrome.
It's not so much the browser you're using as the links you are clicking on. Did you take care which links you were clicking and what sites you were going to?
The best way not to be infected is to change your habits and be more cautious on the internet about certain links.
yeah, believe it or not it was a image search for a sat nav. I clicked the thumbnail and all hell broke loose.
In that case I'll let you off:D
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/16/browser_security_tests/
These sponsored tests are limited in their sole focus on socially engineered malware, while excluding vulnerabilities in plug-ins or browsers themselves. Additionally, the testing methodology isn't available in a way that can be independently verified. Google Chrome was built with security in mind from the beginning and emphasizes protection of users from drive-by downloads and plug-in vulnerabilities — for example, we recently introduced a new security sandbox for Flash Player.
what they are saying is that it's focused on a very small aspect of security.
plus they tested IE 9 beta against chrome 6, the current version of chrome is chrome 8.
hmm perhaps this is why the Trojan got onto my machine whilst using Chrome.
Chrome used to block DS when it had malware on adverts but I have kinda lost faith in the browser since last week.
Firefox add-on are only installed by the user, so why do you have useless ones installed/enabled?