With the choice of Internet browsers available it can be difficult to know which one is best to use. In the end it comes down to a matter of personal choice of course and often not a little prejudice.
However we came across some interesting statistics recently by NSS Labs showing how in tests that they carried out there was a large difference across the major browsers in use at the moment. The results below are from Q3 2009 but if you want to see more information click here
In our chart we have reproduced the results for the four most common Internet browsers, Microsoft IE8, Apple Safari 4, Google Chrome 2 andMozilla Firefox.
The tests aim was to determine how effective web browser protection was against two of today’s most prevalent security threats, namely socially engineered malware and phishing attacks.
Internet threat protection comparison
So based on these tests results it looks like the majority of us are right to stay with IE8 for the time being.
It goes without saying that this will not remove the need for antivirus software, keeping your operating systems (see my previous blogs and these one two) updated and perhaps most importantly of all using your common sense, but it’s good to know that there is another layer of protection there to help in the fight against malware.
Happy Easter.
Tags: Browser, Internet, malware, Protection