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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Which Is Safer: Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0?
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>| In the SmartWare test, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 blocked 690
>| known phishing sites, or 66.35 percent of the total. In contrast,
>| Firefox blocked 78.85 percent when using a local antiphishing
>| database and 81.54 percent when using the online database.
> `----
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20061114/bs_nf/47901
>
> To be fair, the study was commissioned by Mozilla.
Worth noting, for sure, although the Firefox world has a long history of
adblocking and similar, so the anti-phishing is an extension of an area
in which the open-source world has huge experience, whereas Microsoft is
very new to it, and thus unlikely to do as good a job.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
No problem is insoluble.
-- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4
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