Hi malware fighters,
Go here: http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action
Go and enjoy,
polonus
polonus, I followed the link because I trust you. But why don’t you warn that a client part of the benchmark will be installed?
BTW, I don’t think the test was informative. I’ve got 154 points for my Firefox and what? They promised to tell what browser could have the highest performance on my system. So I should install dozens of browsers and run a competition?
Hi George Yves,
The test is from eTrust, reliable as far as I know. Here is their privacystatement:
http://www.futuremark.com/companyinfo/legal/privacystatement/
It is just informative, DrWeb av link scan:
Checking: hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action
Engine version: 5.0.0.12182
Total virus-finding records: 522032
File size: 8576 bytes
File MD5: 77d9817a653f75f844518f13aef17076
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action - archive HTML
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action/Script.0 - Ok
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action/Script.1 - Ok
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action/Script.2 - Ok
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action/Script.3 - Ok
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action/Script.4 - Ok
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action - Ok
Checking: hxxp://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js
File size: 8585 bytes
File MD5: c4ed757d2c77998ebf23a8606bd915f3
hxxp://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js - Ok
Checking: hxxp://service.futuremark.com/ecom/js/ecom.js
File size: 51.23 KB
File MD5: e5f0e3ec219347ec8331802599b3dc1d
hxxp://service.futuremark.com/ecom/js/ecom.js - Ok
Checked with Exploit Prevention Lab’s Link Scanner:
LinkScanner Logo
GreenCheck Congratulations! LinkScanner Online did not find any exploits.
Scanned:
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Norton Safe Web Scanner gives:
futuremark.com
Summary
Norton Safe Web found no issues with this site.
•Computer Threats: 0
•Identity Threats: 0
•Annoyance factors: 0
Total threats on this site: 0
•Community Reviews: 0
Else I would not have put it here,
polonus
I took this test with Iron, it was detected as Safari.
Safari(vunknown) Scored:
355 Points
I have read Safari is forked from Konquerer, a Linux browser.
Security is most important:
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19089
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/17989
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12366
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/10615
Thats because Chrome/Iron is based on WebKit the same engine as Safari so its naturally detected as Safari.
I have read Safari is forked from Konquerer, a Linux browser.You are correct Webkit is forked from KHTML (Konquerer's engine).
OK well if I’m reding the links right the most secure browser would be Opera. Am I wrong in that regard? Well as mentioned in a previous post I have installed Opera again on my Comp and it’s going ok … Definitely made me eat my words with regard to the bloatness ( I know the word doesn’t exist but what the hey) of this browser.
I also installed Iron but I don’t see how this is such a secure browser. Can you help me out with that rdmaloyjr.
Cheers
Confused Computer User,
Iron, Chrome & Konqueror’s security rating would essentially be the same as Safari’s.
I use Iron for the very few things Opera won’t or can’t do. The things Opera wont do are security related. The things Opera can’t do usually are fixed in the next release.
Yes, Opera is the most secure browser. 
ah… Thank you rdmaloyjr.
I thought Iron was meant to be more secure but in this case I’ll keep Opera only and unistall Iron. Thank you for the feed back.
Security is an illusion up to a point, IE gets a lot of stick because it has the greatest user base the the malware writer gets more bang for their buck so to speak. Then comes firefox which is just starting to come into the cross hairs as it becomes more popular. Then there are the also rans which don’t come in for the same degree of attention.
But even with IE there is much that the user can do to bolster security and one of the most important is to keep it up to date, all these vulnerabilities that are being exploited the greatest majority have been closed in security updates.
So total numbers of security advisories is just one part of the equation, you also have to look at how long it takes to patch these and how many are outstanding and how serious these are.
I have been using firefox from about version 1.5 I believe and I haven’t I have yet to experience a vulnerability that was exploited. For some time now I have also been using NoScript and that really does beef up security added to that firefox also has a safebrowsing function to alert you to about know malicious sites. I have had this alert me on several occasions whilst investigating reported avast detection in these forums.
Then for all browsers you can help yourself, by either running your browser or other internet facing software with restricted rights or a limited user account. Not to mention you also have the network and web shields at work.
So security isn’t just about what browser you choose but about the person between the keyboard and the chair.
The market share has a lot to do with how much attention hackers pay to the browser. Opera has 0.70% of the browser market, so no one wants to attack it. Its the same reason no one pays attention to Mac OS X or linux, their Market share is too small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I like this point.
I was thinking of this but none the less I had used Opera back in the day when it was at version 5.0 maybe 6.0. So I’ve interacted with it. I liked it because of its speed and when running on dial-up with Win’95 FireFox did not run well. Opera did.
I make no assumption that one browser is better than the other but each has a certain characteristic it exceeds at. I have been using Firefox for the past 2 years and I believe that even with the known vulnerabilities it doesn’t change much since I don’t venture on to the wide web all that often. However the idea that I can sometimes use a browser which doesn’t have any known vulnerabilities (in those odd occasions) is reassuring.
Thank you DavidR and Mac for your comments.
I was thinking of this but none the less I had used Opera back in the day when it was at version 5.0 maybe 6.0. So I've interacted with it. I liked it because of its speed and when running on dial-up with Win'95 FireFox did not run well. Opera did.
I used Version 5-6.x on Mac OS 9 because Mozilla ran so awfully slow under the Classic Mac OS and used it up to the date I finally sold the machine and got one with OS X (I skipped the first two releases and did not use it until 10.2) Thats when I adopted Safari.
So a similar experience to mine, well except that I was runing it on Win’95. I’m now using Firefox as my day to day browser, Opera as an Ocasional borwser and IE is set as my default because being integrated into the OS I think I should let it be and not tinker with it. :-\
It is just the opposite for me, CCU, as I only use IE7 when I have to and Opera is my default browser.
There is no harm in setting another browser other than IE as your default browser.