IE9

[GUARD!AN]

Rocks my socks.

Goodbye Chrome.

[Max Rambone]

Better than firefox?

~archi

[Roflraptor]

Better than firefox?

~archi

There doesn't seem to be that much special about it. I also love the wikipedia's malware section on IE9.

NSS Lab reports IE9 blocks 99% of malware compared to Firefox's 19%. The only problem is what the report is actually talking about.

From the NSS Labs report:

"Note: This study does not evaluate browser security related to vulnerabilities in plug-ins or the browsers themselves."

"For clarity, the following definition is used for a socially-engineered malware URL: a web page link that directly leads to a download that delivers a malicious payload whose content type would lead to execution, or more generally a website known to host malware links. These downloads appear to be safe, like those for a screen saver application, video codec upgrade, etc., and are designed to fool the user into taking action. Security professionals also refer to these threats as “consensual” or “dangerous” downloads."

So i'm curious as to how this type of malware protection actually works. Is it just a URL blacklist? A file name blacklist? Some sort of generated hash key check? Maybe even heuristic scanning? Nope, it's this:

(Image from NSS report).

That is what constitutes a 'block'.

[GUARD!AN]

Eh, regardless of browser, if you are being stupid on the internet, you are going to end up downloading something bad eventually. I didn't really choose IE9 for security reasons.

Personally I think it's tough to compare Firefox to either Chrome or IE. Firefox is super customizable and is great for web development in addition to its browsing. My only gripe was that it is slow at booting up and loading, and is a huge memory hog. I also found Firefox on my computer is kind of unstable after I run more than 25 tabs. Which is why when I am just browsing I don't really like to yews Firefox, cause I open up like 30 tabs at a time.

I did install chrome for browsing, but IE9 boots up faster, loads pages faster, and looks cleaner than chrome. And so far I've found it to be a bit more stable than both Firefox and Chrome with lots of tabs.

I do still yews Firefox though, and love it just as much as IE. I don't think choosing JUST one browser is the way to go for people who develop/customize/hack/etc IMO.

[jaw4]

i always knew you were a hacker guard