The
Washington Post as well as
this site has reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has fallen way back in terms of security - it seems that IE7 is 100% less effective in stopping Phishing compared to Firefox.
The results differ due to the way both browsers approach Phishing.
With IE7, the user is asked upon installation whether he wants to allow the browser to auto-check all Web sites against a Microsoft database (...) Firefox's default setting, in contrast, uses a blacklist of known phishing sites that is stored on the user's computer and updated approximately every 30 minutes. Alternatively, Firefox users can opt to turn auto-detect on, in which case the browser will check Web sites the user visits by checking them against a database maintained by Google. (
source)
At the end of the day, this is not a battle of the browsers, although the headline sort of treats it as such. The growing concern is that even if both browsers can block of phishing sites, 20-40% of these still get through.
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