“The testing included 636 URLs identified as potentially malicious. ... Meanwhile, Internet Explorer widened the gap. Internet Explorer 8 improved its results over the previous study—increasing from an 85 percent block rate to 90 percent. Internet Explorer 9, though—which wasn’t available during the previous study—was nearly flawless. “
Folks, I’m no techie. However, in my experience, blockers regularly block sites I want to see. I was having problems accessing FreeRepublic at times, and also a number of history and religious sites.
I’m not at all sure I want a browser that decides to block websites for me. Is that what this is about, or is there something else that I’m just missing?
FWIW, my computer has only caught a virus twice this last year, and one of those was my daughter using it and clicking on an ad to ‘help’ find viruses - so I don’t feel like I’m too threatened anyways.
I hate to break it to you, but twice in a year is a lot and having a teenager using a computer almost by definition makes it “at risk” for a virus.