IE Easily Beats Chrome, Firefox Security, Says Microsoft
Microsoft has launched a new marketing campaign promoting its web browser.
Just like the TV campaign, the focus is once again security and is at least partially based on the results recently published by security company NSS Labs. This time, the campaign appears to be on the Internet and enables users to instantly test the security of their browser and get a dose of reality just how secure or vulnerable the software is. Before you run the test, let me advise you that, unless you use IE9 or IE10, you won't like what you see.
Only IE scores a full score of 4 possible points. The current version of Chrome (14) ends up at 2.5 and Firefox (7) at 2. If you are still using Firefox 3.6, you get only 1.5. The breakdown, according to the website is that both Chrome and Firefox do not protect users against dangerous downloads. However, Microsoft's criteria are limited to socially engineered malware (which refers to the test conducted by NSS Labs) and "distinct" download warnings against apps that are not yet confirmed as malware.
According to Microsoft, Chrome and Firefox are just as good in phishing protection as IE and Chrome even trumps IE in two out of seven criteria describing browser attacks (while Chrome also two other disciplines against IE). Firefox is the worst browser in direct attack vulnerability, according to Microsoft. Both Chrome and Firefox lose against IE in website attack protection.
Of course, one may argue that rating a browser's security on 16 hand-picked features may be problematic. It may be difficult to build a case on those claims, especially if IE has only three gaps while Chrome comes in with seven misses and Firefox 7 with nine. Could Mozilla have picked 16 categories that would have made IE look bad? Sure. Could Google have slanted the criteria to its faster update cycle? Of course. On the fairness side, Microsoft does offer download links to all three browsers.
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of course Microsoft will say this, internet explorer is there product
every company does this, Microsoft keep saying what a great piece of software windows is yet truth be told it is very buggy
of course Microsoft will say this, internet explorer is there productevery company does this, Microsoft keep saying what a great piece of software windows is yet truth be told it is very buggy
I realise this is an article about ie security (and not windows), which is acknowledged to be excellent (along with chrome)
but skanky's trolling has made me want to post.
buggy you say, infact "very buggy" care to clarify, are you getting
memory leaks?, bsods? problems restarting from sleep? I've used windows
7 since public beta and i had one bsod on one laptop and that turned out to be a hardware failure. Ok i've struggled to get some ancient software to work (as i don't have the proffesional/ultimate editions) but with modern software (2001+) i've not had a problem.
Wow, IE even trumps itself. =]
Wow, IE even trumps itself. =]
LOL
Not sure how credible these claims are - similar to the Apple claims of old that Mac OS was more secure than Windows. I guess all companies do it.
Well if you cherry pick your results I'm sure you can argue any browser appear superior to the competition. Still this is just PR not an in depth security analysis.
I've always thought web security is more about the user than the browser, it dosen't matter how many warnings IE flashes up if the user ingnores them like most people do with UAC.
Opera scores 4 out of 4 if I mask as IE , but if I identify as Opera scores 0 out of 4
The site does not test anything just uses browser sniffing.
Microsoft bullshitting again.
It certainly is secure, since after installing IE8 it crashed my computer and then wouldn't let me back on the internet.