Internet Explorer 9 offers Web surfers the best protection against social engineering malware. IE9 blocks malicious URLs more than 99 percent of the time, according to NSS Labs. Social engineering malware remains the most common security threat facing Internet users today, NSS says. NSS tests have been a source of controversy in the past, with several browser makers protesting the test results that found their products vulnerable to TCP Split Handshake attacks. The over-time protection rate for Google Chrome, for example, was 13.2 percent, while for Firefox 4 and Safari 5.”]
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