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A recent security test conducted by NSS Labs found that IE 8 outperformed all other browsers, some by a wide margin, in a battery of security tests. I think the big news here isn’t how well IE8 did but how poorly some of the others performed.
In the NSS Labs test with live traffic, Internet Explorer 8 caught 81 percent of the attacks coming over the wire. IE8 vastly outperformed the second closest rival, Firefox 3, which caught 54 percent of the inbound threats. IE8’s performance improved 12 percent over a similar test conducted the previous quarter; NSS Labs credits continual improvements to its SmartScreen technology.