Study: Internet Explorer 9 Defends Best Against Malware Links

Microsoft Internet Adventurer 9 offers WWW surfers the best protection against social engineering science malware, accordant to test results free today by an independent research firm.

With its original Application Reputation feature, IE9 blocks bitchy URLs to a higher degree 99 percent of the time, according to NSS Labs, of Carlsbad, Ca.

Application Reputation is Microsoft's attempt to create a definitive list of every application on the Internet. The name is dynamically created and maintained, much the same way Google and Bing are continuously building and maintaining a program library of content for search purposes. That list is and then wont to establish the reputation of a program.

"It became obvious from these recent tests, in comparison to NSS Labs' earlier global tests, that Microsoft continues to ameliorate their Id est malware protection in IE9 through its SmartScreen Filter technology and with the addition of SmartScreen Application Report technology," NSS reported.

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NSS defines social group engineering malware URLs As golf links that entice users to download a malicious payload or visit a site best-known to host malware golf links. The carrot that gets users to click is often the predict of naked pictures surgery fantasy football apps,

"With a unique URL block score of 99.9 percent and over-sentence tribute rating of 99.2 percent, Internet Explorer 9 was by far the best at protecting against socially-engineered malware," it added.

The unique URL block score measures what percent of malicious golf links a browser blocks when those links first get on participating. The overtime protection rating looks at what percentage of malicious links a web browser blocks over a full stop of days.

Internet Explorer's test results left the scores of four competing browsers in the dust. The over-time protection rank for Google Chrome, for instance, was 13.2 percent, while for Firefox 4 and Hunting expedition 5 IT was 7.6 percent and for Opera house 11, 6.1 percent.

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"Microsoft is the most attacked company in the populace, so this is something they give birth a great deal of experience with," said NSS President and CEO Rick Moy. The Redmond giant collects data on all the attacks on their products to create the heel of harmless and malicious applications that drive off Application Reputation.

Neither Microsoft nor whatsoever other browser maker sponsored the report, Moy said. Apiece browser Jehovah is invited to participate, unhampered charge, in setting up its browser properly for the essa.

The NSS test results confirm claims made by Microsoft nearly the effectivity of the blocking features introduced in IE9. Those claims were initially challenged by nonpareil protection researcher. "Because IE9's unable to block exploits of so much computer software as Adobe brick Reviewer and Flash, Apple's iTunes or Vaticinator 's Java, Microsoft's information doesn't show the real picture," declared Sophos's Chet Wisniewski.

NSS tests have been a source of controversy in the past. Its report on firewalls in April had several makers of those products protesting the test results that found their products vulnerable to TCP Divide Handshaking attacks.

NSS performs this test periodically. Since the last try in the third poop of 2010, IE9, Chrome, and Opera have improved, while Firefox and Safari did more ailing.

NSS explained that elite engineering malware remains the most common security menace facing Internet users nowadays, claiming one third of Internet users as victims. These attacks pose a significant risk to individuals and organizations by threatening to compromise, damage or acquire sensitive personal and collective information.

Continent and American users suffer found themselves careful targets of malware authors over the last 12 months, it said (PDF). North America has consistently been the primary host of malicious URLs, while users in Asia have been victims of the greatest amoun of malicious URLs.

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