A Mozilla study claims that the anti-phishing filter in Firefox 2.0 beats IE 7
Mozilla claims anti-phishing crown
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15 Nov 2006, Tom Sanders in California , V3
A study commissioned by Mozilla claims that the anti-phishing filter in Firefox 2.0 beats Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 hands down.
The study found that Firefox in its most secure configuration blocked 81.5 per cent of all phishing websites. Internet Explorer 7 blocked just 66.35 per cent of the phishing sites, according to the Mozilla study.
Firefox 2.0 failed to flag a phishing site in 117 instances when Internet Explorer 7 did catch it, while the Microsoft browser let 243 URLs slip through that Firefox stopped.
Paid for by Mozilla, the study was performed by SmartWare, a technology, strategy and marketing firm. The test methodology and results were audited by 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.
A similar study carried out in September by Microsoft gave top marks to Internet Explorer 7. The study did not test Firefox 2.0 but compared the browser to seven third-party security applications.
The Microsoft study was performed by 3Sharp, a company specialising in messaging architectures that has no track record in market research and security analysis.
Mozilla's study results are available on the Mozilla Developer Center website.
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Do you agree?
why argue
why not help out the customer on this one and combine databases that way both ie and firefox block as much as possible.. seems both could learn something from the other
Posted by werD, 15 Nov 2006