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Study reveals that Internet Explorer prevents 95pct of malicious activity

NSS labs had announced the results about the best browser which can protect against leading forms of malware.The tests carried out on different browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari,how far they can protect users from bank fraud, password theft, fake antivirus scams and click fraud.These results were announced on yesterday. Results highlighted that Internet Explorer offered users significant advantages pertaining to overall malware protection, preventing 95 percent of malicious activity; Chrome blocked only 33 percent, Safari and Firefox less than 6 percent each. Click fraud malware was blocked at a significantly lower rate by 3 out of the 4 browsers tested. Here again, the results highlighted that Internet Explorer continued to do better than the others by blocking 96.6 percent of click fraud activity; Chrome managed only 1.6 percent, Firefox and Safari blocked only 0.8 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively. Block rate sc...
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