Thread: Study Touts Internet Explorer 8 As Worlds Most Secure Browser

( Firefox FTW , )

( And who uses IE 8? An unused browser is more secure, even if Micro$oft funded the study. , )

( I think it is EXTREMELY POOR \(and suspect\) reporting to declare in the opening sentence "According to a recent independent study..." and THEN farther down reveal that one of the study participants PAID for the study! COME ON!!! ANY begining journalism student knows better. Really makes me wonder if Microsoft PAID the author of this story as well... Also makes me really wonder how much "Buzz" MS products would have if MS...

( "Independent" meaning by a separate entity. We can argue the possibility that it was slanted toward MS all day \(though no testing organization worth its salt that wants to be taken seriously would let money slant its reporting\), but MS itself did not perform the testing. --Nick PCW Assistant Editor Nick Mediati - Assistant Editor; resident OS/web browser/security nerd , )

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( Hackers have repeatedly broken into IE8 faster than they have broken into Firefox 3.5. "Pwn-2-Own" contests at the Blackhat Hacker Conferences have shown this for two years in a row. Chrome is doing better this year than last year, but there are still serious privacy issues with anything from Google. , )

( Tell me, why do they need monetary support for something I could do in my basement? Intel C2Q 6600 Kentsfield 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB cache | 3GB DDR3 1333MHz Corsair + OCZ RAM \(DC\) | NVidia 8600GT, 256MB DDR3 memory, 620MHz | 3x 250GB Samsung HD250HJ , )

( Good for Microsoft they have been improving theyre browser since IE 7, but Is there any other browser test that can back this up. IMO one test lab is not enough to prove. , )

( this whole thing.... fail , )

( Dear friends: That`s not true, probably Micro Soft Paid an independent company to publish that comment; as everybody involved in the cyber world know that the most secure browser right now in FIREFOX ,Nobody loves the Internet more than we do. But, scammers, spammers and trigger-happy viruses are true threats, so we need to stay alert while using the Web and FIREFOX is the most reliable Brrowser because there`s a whole community of...