'Firefox online phishing better than IE7'

Mozilla has asked independent consulting firm SmartWare Consulting (USA) to check the effectiveness of the "Fire Fox" browser. As a result, Firefox blocked 79% of phishing sites, while IE7 only reached 66%.

This is considered Mozilla's "retaliatory" move after Microsoft announced 3 Sharp LLC's test results in September, saying IE7 phishing filters outperformed rivals, including Mozilla and McAfee products. and EarthLink.

Source: pc-magazin Tested on 1,040 phishing websites, Firefox blocked 820 pages when running in local mode, achieving 78.85% accuracy. Local mode checks the list of known phishing URLs that are contained in the browser. But when running on Ask Google, the system checks phishing site list updated online, "Fire fox" blocked 848 pages, achieving accuracy of 81.5%.

IE7 when turning off auto-checking in anti-phishing filters only blocks 16 pages (exactly 1.54%). When enabled, IE7 blocks 690 pages, exactly 66.35%.

In which there were 243 cases of Firefox blocking but IE7 "failed" and 117 cases of IE succeeded and Firefox failed. There are 65 cases where both browsers were tricked by the fraudulent page.

The comparison test between Firefox 2 and IE7 was carried out from October 19 to November 11, using the phishing site list of PhishTank service. These pages are updated by a network community that checks and identifies. Any new phishing URLs will also be included in the test database.

See Mozilla's test data here, analyzing IE7 activity that Microsoft conducted here.