NSS subjected Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 15-19, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 7-13 to over 3 million test runs against over 84,000 URLs determined to be active and malicious out of a unique sample set of 227,841. Out of 750,000 test cases per browser, NSS labs found in its that IE9's malware block rate was 95%, whle Firefox and Safari trailed far behind at 6% apiece and Chrome was somewhere in the middle, with its rate varying from 13% to 74%.
(IE and Chrome are neck and neck, by the way, for the in Web browser share, followed by Firefox and Safari.)
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The NSS "Is your Browser Putting You at Risk?" report conclude that users should "evaluate browser security as part of their layered security strategy."