IE performs better than FF, Chrome and others in recent security report?

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According to a recent report from NSS labs, Internet Explorer performed significantly better in proactively detecting malicious websites than its competitors.

Detection rates were up to 96% for IE while Chrome and other languished far below.

The gulf between the browsers performance in the tests surprises me to be honest, so I make no claim on the accuracy or relaibility of the report, but the data presented does seem compelling.

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Browsers are not for detecting malicious web site in my book, it’s up to your AV software and you.
Browsers should not have holes that malicious sites can drive through – performance varies here.
Users are responsible for NOT clicking Yes when asked if you want to run files from web sites – at least not until they have run a virus scan on the file and checked that they actually want whatever they have downloaded.

My 2c.

cheers, Paul

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I think IE has consistently fared better than the others, in that respect. I just wish they could make it as reliable as Chrome, on everything else. Then they would make a compelling case for people to use IE again.

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