Recently a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of browser maker Opera Software was given to 2800 people to test the hypothesis that “Is web browser choice a factor affecting security“. This survey revealed that many people still don’t realize how applications might affect overall system security. Personally, I do not entirely trust all kinds of survey, but somehow I quite agree with the outcome of this survey.
51% of those respondents thought that their choice of browser software could be a factor in whether their systems become infiltrated by malicious software, while the rest thought otherwise. Of that 49%, 17 % thought that the browser played no role in overall system security and 32% said they didn’t know about the fact web browser could be one of the sources of malware and spyware.
Quoted:
Chief technology officer at Opera Software, HÃ¥kon Wium Lie suggested, “Changing to a more secure browser is one of the simplest ways for Web users to make surfing safer and minimize the risk of falling victim to virus, spyware or phishing attacks”.
In fact, there are several other ways to improve browser security such as simple adjustments to Internet Explorer’s security zone settings (whether through configuration dialogs or registry hacks) can dramatically improve overall system security. Before I switched to Firefox more than 2 years ago, I set any trigger of Active-X should prompt me for notification because I know some Active-X scripts are nasty. :D
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