IE fights back, sort of
InternetNews | at | by Mike
In a public post on the popular BugTraq Security vulnerability posting newsletter, Microsoft's maligned Internet Explorer got an unexpected boost this week.
According to a post by security researcher, Michal Zalewski, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) may be more secure than its alternative counterparts in certain respects. Zalewski created what he referred to as a, "trivial program to generate tiny, razor-sharp shards of malformed HTML." He used the program as a test against Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Lynx and Links to feed the bad data (malformed HTML) to each of the browsers.
In Zalewski's test, the alternative browsers did not perform as well as IE.