NSS Labs released the results and analysis from its web browser security comparative evaluating the protection offered by five browsers - Safari 5, Chrome 25/26, Internet Explorer 10, Firefox 19 and Opera 12 - against malware downloads (also known as socially engineered malware).
While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly - rising to more than 83% from 70% in NSS’ October 2012 comparative test - Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%.
Safari, Firefox and Opera continue to lag far behind Chrome and Internet Explorer with overall block rates of 10.16%, 9.92% and 1.87% respectively.
Both IE10 and Chrome performed well in the NSS Labs' test, due to the built-in sandboxing feature that MS calls Enhanced Protected Mode. The IE10's sandbox is per tab, Chrome's is per browser that probably accounts for some of the performance differences between the two.
Neither Firefox, nor Opera or Safari have built-in sandboxing. While one can get an app for sandboxing to provide the additional layer of security for these browser, most people wouldn't even know how to use the app....
I know, but I used IE10 to go to some sites which are normally malware sites or am I mistaken or IE10 is not working?
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You list Malwarebytes AntiMalware as your antivirus product. Even the pro version is not an antivirus product... so be careful visting questionable websites. You might want to look into using a browser from within a Virtual Machine that is isolated from your host laptop.
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't incorporate NoScript into Firefox (obviously they'd have to do a deal with the developer).
Instead they keep wasting time and effort on pointless GUI mods or social network integration (whatever that means).
I don't know why Mozilla doesn't incorporate NoScript into Firefox (obviously they'd have to do a deal with the developer).
Instead they keep wasting time and effort on pointless GUI mods or social network integration (whatever that means).
They should fix the Bookmark Manager too.
NoScript would disable all Google tracking/advertising scripts as well. When most of Mozilla's income is coming from Google, incorporating NoScript into Firefox may not be as easy as it seems:
Both IE10 and Chrome performed well in the NSS Labs' test, due to the built-in sandboxing feature that MS calls Enhanced Protected Mode. The IE10's sandbox is per tab, Chrome's is per browser that probably accounts for some of the performance differences between the two.
Neither Firefox, nor Opera or Safari have built-in sandboxing. While one can get an app for sandboxing to provide the additional layer of security for these browser, most people wouldn't even know how to use the app....
Firefox does have Private Window Browsing. I use AIS and it has a sandbox. I don't visit sites that would require one.
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Both IE10 and Chrome performed well in the NSS Labs' test, due to the built-in sandboxing feature that MS calls Enhanced Protected Mode. The IE10's sandbox is per tab, Chrome's is per browser that probably accounts for some of the performance differences between the two.
Neither Firefox, nor Opera or Safari have built-in sandboxing. While one can get an app for sandboxing to provide the additional layer of security for these browser, most people wouldn't even know how to use the app....
Firefox does have Private Window Browsing. I use AIS and it has a sandbox. I don't visit sites that would require one.
That doesn't change the fact that Firefox does not have built-in sandbox support...
My sister's computer is an HP Pavilion dv5t-2200 notebook PC running its native OS, Windows 7 Home Premium x64. In the last 24 hours, Avast found and attempted to remove some sort of malware. After the reboot, it recommended a full scan. After the scan was completed, the computer rebooted again....
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