Microsoft’s consistent efforts to bulletproof the latest major iterations of Windows and the Internet Explorer default component are paying off.
Internet Explorer 8 managed to come up on top of rivals in the most recent versions of the NSS Labs tests designed to try out the level of protection against
socially engineered malware. In addition, the Redmond company has been receiving a thumbs up from security experts, both for its overall work on security as well as its focus on improving the level of protection for IE8 users.
In an
interview with Softpedia, Ondrej Vlcek CTO AVAST Software, noted that IE8’s security is on par with that of rival browsers Firefox and Chrome. At the same time Vlcek downplayed the relevancy of Chrome’s sandboxing in terms of actually improving user security.
“We don't see any meaningful difference in the security of IE8 versus that of the newest Firefox or even Chrome, which has the tab sandboxing. I don't think the Chrome sandbox was really designed as an anti-malware measure. It's more about the stability of the individual tabs – crashing of one tab not injuring the others. It's not really that efficient against malware,” Vlcek said.
As for Google's Chrome browser there that would be more inclined to see adwares of some type. FireFox has been a popular target as well for malware writers since it become a popular item.
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