Interesting. A new report states that IE8 blocks up to 80% of social malware. That means IE8 blocks 3-80 times more social malware then Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or Opera.

While that does not mean that IE8 is safe, or solid it does mean that on average IE8 will block more. IE (7+8) has a 50% market share. IE7 blocks phishing pages (fake pages) like the other browsers. IE8 although is unique in that it will block direct .exe downloads (or otherwise) that it detects are malware. This does help users from downloading malware since IE8 uses it’s malware definitions to detect new threats.

It is surprising to see very low block rates for Firefox, and Opera. I would come to expect more from those browsers (especially more than <1%!). The report shows that most browsers (the exception of Opera) are gaining the battle in the social engineered malware war.

You can view the report your self. Warning: is a .pdf doc.

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