Reports are out that IE8 is now blocking 2,000,000+ malicious and fake websites per day via the smart screen technology.

The goal of most fake websites (also called phishing) is to get you to enter your info into a website that looks like it but is obviously not. This is usually gaming websites like haboo.com/ca, runescape, and most banking websites.

While the goal of malicious websites is to either freeze your browser or your computer, install spyware/adware/trojans or to exploit a vulnerability in a software. Most of the times this is seen with fake flash player videos, pdf’s, and fake your infected web pages.

Microsoft’s smart screen technology has been out since IE7 where it scans a website, checks to see if anything is bad. It also checks to see if the url is blacklisted. IE8 will also block downloads that are detected by Microsoft as unsafe.

It’s unknown how much higher Firefox blocks the same websites. I personally have seen a much higher block rate in Firefox than IE with community’s like phishtank.

Chome’s block rate though is low since it needs Google to detect problems on a webpage. If their is problems detected it will be blocked also in there search engine.

So really. IE8/Safari/Chrome/Firefox and others are helping us fight the bad side of the online world and its nice to now that block rates are rising.

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