ha - MG Siegler

"Microsoft was the sole sponsor of the test, Moy acknowledged, adding that having just one funding source was unusual for his company. .... In fact, Firefox, Chrome and Safari all turn to the same source for their blacklist: Google's SafeBrowsing API. Moy wasn't able to completely explain why, if that's the case, the three browsers' scores were so different in the NSS tests." - Matt Cutts

It has to be. - Jack&Cleo

Gee what a surprise....MS sponsored study shows it's browser is the best at fighting malware? - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

slayerboy, even that's technically not accurate, b/c the study specifically excluded drive-by download malware, which is the most dangerous type and what most SafeBrowsing APIs protect against. This study was about "socially engineered" malware, which requires the user to click to download. In fact it appears that the study deliberately disregards all of the drive-by download stuff, which of course is not only more malicious, but what all the SafeBrowsing APIs in non-Microsoft browsers are geared to detect. - Matt Cutts

good grief! the train just barrels on. - nic

I will admit, they do build in a lot of "do you really want to do this" into possible downloads promptsthese days, but Matt your point is very valid. - Eric