Thursday, March 4, 2010

NSS Labs Browser Security Test Q1 2010 Report

NSS Labs has published a report of a test they made to compare how different browsers managed against socially-engineered malware.

Tested browsers were:
-Apple Safari 4
-Google Chrome 4
-Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
-Mozilla Firefox 3.5
-Opera 10

The test winner was Internet Explorer 8 that had won two earlier made tests too. It was able to stop 85% of malicious URLs. The second place was shared by Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5, both able to stop 29% of live threats.

The full report can be read here.

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