November 14, 2006

Recently, Mozilla commissioned a security study that reveals the anti-phishing filter in the Firebox version 2 browser is better than Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7. The report shows that Mozilla's Firefox blocked 81.5 percent of all phishing websites. On the other hand, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 flagged only 66.34 per cent of the security threats caused by potential phishing attacks.

In 117 instances, Firefox failed to flag a phishing site when IE 7 did. However, the Microsoft browser let 243 URLs slip through that Firefox would stop.

Sponsored by Mozilla, the study was performed by SmartWare, a technology, strategy and marketing company. The test methodology and their results were audited by Internet security testing provider iSEC Partners.

The test fed a series of known phishing URLs from PhishTank to the browsers over a period of two weeks in late October and early November 2006.

The report follows a September survey done by Microsoft which gave top marks to Internet Explorer 7. The study didn't test Firefox 2 but compared the browser to a series of seven third party security applications.

The Microsoft study was performed by 3Sharp, a company specializing in messaging architectures that has no track record in market research and security analysis.

Source: Vnunet

Save Internet Security.ca's URL to the list of your favorite web sites in your Web browser by clicking here.

Become an authorized reseller of Proxy Sentinel™ and Firewall Sentinel™. Do like the rest of our authorized resellers and have your clients benefit the important security features of our products and solutions, while increasing your sales at the same time. Click here for all the details.

You can link to the Internet Security web site as much as you like. Read our section on how your company can participate in our reciprocal link exchange program and increase your rankings in the major search engines such as
Google and all the others.