Microsoft IE9 scores highest in socially engineered malware blocking tests

Microsoft ' s Internet Settler 9 has achieved top scores in blocking socially engineered malware, according to comparative tests conducted by security research analyst NSS Labs.

Socially - engineered malware remains the most colloquial security threat opposite internet users, according to the examination report, keep from recent studies program users to serve as four times added likely to appear as tricked into downloading
malware than being compromised by an exploit.

Testing Microsoft ' s Internet Settler 9

In testing, Internet Frontiersman 9 ( IE9 ) blocked 92 % of live malware threats stow away its SmartScreen URL reputation component and an further 8 % cloak its neoteric Application Reputation component. This characteristic warns users when a program is enhanced likely to sell for malicious.

Microsoft estimates Application Reputation will prohibit extended than 20 million infections a future, over and exceeding existing URL reputation blocks.

According to the NSS Labs report, IE9 offers the matchless protection of section browser inveigh socially engineered malware, blocking over seven times numerous threat than Journey 5, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4 and another than 18 times and than Opera 11.

IE8, which lacks IE9 ' s application reputation technology, came in second town, blocking 90 % of socially engineered malware.

Nature Caravan 5 impressed 13 % of conscious threats, offering protection midpoint alike to Chrome and Firefox, according to the NSS Labs research.

Mozilla Firefox 4 stirred 13 % of the breathing threats, 6 % less than the 19 % shelter rate heuristic by NSS Labs in assessment conducted in the inquest neighborhood of 2010. This indicates either an overall jerk in cover being Firefox or a regional infatuation in Europe, the bill uttered.

Google Chrome implicated 13 % of the live threats, but this was in truth exceeding than the 3 % empirical in the Q3 2010 assessment again a embrace evolvement, the balance vocal.

Opera 11 was the poorest performer, catching pure 5 % of the alive threats, but providing a measurable price of protection inveigh socially - engineered malware for the primogenial span, according to the NSS Labs report.

According to the EU ' s statistics office, Eurostat, halfway a feeler of internet users in Europe were victims of malware infections in 2010, despite most having security software installed.

Microsoft statistics display that 1 in 14 executable downloads is malware. Microsoft ' s statistics spectacle the social engineering component is upping thanks to security improvements in operating systems and websites dynamism attackers to review for other vulnerabilities to exploit.

For this basis, Microsoft believes application reputation is the road to activity, says Jeb Haber, principal program employer for Smartscreen. But, he says, still peerless a handful of security protections are using this accession.

Refrence :Warwick Ashford