Comments on: IE9 5x more malware secure than Firefox say researchers

By: -J-

-J- — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:11:00 +0000

… just to clarify: several months ago when article was written, IE9 and Firefox4 were both in beta, while IE8 and firefox 3.6 were the “fully up to date” versions. The author makes no mention of whether Chrome was or was not 10 times more secure.

By: -J-

-J- — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:06:00 +0000

IE9 versus firefox 3.6 is a silly comparison – if you take a newer version of IE and compare it to an older version of Firefox, what do you expect? IE8 and firefox 3.6 are oudated and insecure, so let’s talk about the browsers that people are actually installing on their computers today: IE9, firefox 4, and Chrome 10.

By: Rob Ward

Rob Ward — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:13:36 +0000

What they did NOT test is just as interesting as what they did.
Since they didn’t say what security extensions were loaded on their test version of Firefox, I assume there were none, which would have significantly altered the results.

Also, they tested IE9, but not Opera 11? That’s its own sort of interesting.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:32:50 +0000

Read the test itself: “This private test was contracted by Microsoft’s SmartScreen product team as an internal benchmark, leveraging our Live Testing framework.”

By: ImperfectLink

ImperfectLink — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:20:26 +0000

In the end there’s still no replacement for common sense.