Thread: Microsoft's Browser Best at Beating Malware

( "...rather that every time PC World posts an article that seems favorable to Apple or its products, the Windows "fanboys" come out in DROVES to accuse PC World of just that." "I NEVER HAVE understood "either/or" mentalities -- whether it's in politics, religion, computers or whatever. " Ah, yes, that is the human condition. Each of us believing we have the divine insight to make our beliefs the...

( + I certainly understand the need for stability with regard to a particular crashing website on any particular tab. Yet the issue is that when you look at the size that IE 8 is taking up with regard to system resources. It is almost 3 1/2 times greater than IE 7 or Firefox. And that I believe is one of the big issues, because if you run IE 8 for any period of time. It becomes so system intensive that it begins to compromise other services. I...

( That's my general take on things, as well, Kahuna... that PC World is a pretty well-trusted and reasonably unbiased source of general computer information, whether Windows, Mac, Linux or whatever. When I said "all the posters on this site," I didn't mean to imply that every poster on this site seems to think PC World is Mac-Centric, rather that every time PC World posts an article that seems favorable to Apple or its...

( laez wrote: IE 8 uses separate processes for each tab for stability. If you have a web page that crashes, you can force quit that tab only while keeping your remaining ones open. Google Chrome uses this method as well. I suppose that's one way to handle it. I just force close Firefox and reload it, minus the window that crashed. This happens so rarely that it hasn't been an annoyance. , )

( smartscreen is almost worthless. When I report phishing sites which need to be blocked in minutes of hours, Netcraft blocks them in minutes, Firefox shortly after \(powered by Google\), for some reason Opera takes up to a few hours even though they are supposedly powered by Netcraft - they are also the only one of the three browsers without an easy way to report a site, which the site remains unblocked by MS sometimes a DAY later by which...

( IE 8 uses separate processes for each tab for stability. If you have a web page that crashes, you can force quit that tab only while keeping your remaining ones open. Google Chrome uses this method as well. , )

( What anti-virus was used? Sounds like the test was done with unprotected computers. I don't expect the browser to protect me. That's why I run an anti-virus and other software, not to mention hardware. , )

( Points missed in the article: \(1\) Bare-bones IE8 has no add-ons available to enhance security. Chrome also has no security add-ons. Firefox has dozens of them, the most effective of which are NoFlash, Better Privacy, NoScript, and AdBlock Plus \(unless Super AdBlocker is a standard plug-in in Firefox 3.5 -- I don't recall how it got into my copies, but I do use Super Antispyware Free\). And don't get me started about Active X --...

( brigrove wrote: Frankly I cannot BELIEVE this survey or the idiocy of those prepared to believe it. Smartscreen Filter is almost worthless. I can only assume that the test sponsored by Microsoft was designed to show their browser as good and get good publicity from magazines and sites with such a poor standard of journalism that they wouldn't check it out for themselves. Like many of you I receive phishing email every day. I dutifully...

( The very fact that this supposedly unbiased report was bought and paid-for by Microsoft speaks for itself. Has anyone noticed that in certain automotive magazines, the manufacturers with the most paid ad pages seem to always get lavishly favorable editorial opinions and test reviews? Does anyone believe that this NSS company would ever get another lucrative contract from Redmond, WA, if IE had been rated last or even other than first? Not in...