Following Google, Opera has also come forward with concerns question resent test results that state that IE8 and IE9 are more secure than any other browser.

Spokesman Thomas Ford told ConceivablyTech in an email:

“We have some concerns with the results posted by NSS. First, we are unclear as to why they received no results. We use AVG and Yandex, among others, for our fraud protection solution. Both have performed well in our testing. It is odd that they received no results from our data providers.

The latter could indicate that what NSS Labs actually tests is the providers that Microsoft uses in IE. As such, the test almost becomes a QA test of Microsoft’s own system rather than a real test.

Furthermore, social malware protection is not an indicator of overall browser security. It is an additional functionality we added to our Fraud Protection mechanism, to help people avoid installing bad software on their computers, but has nothing to do with the security of the web

browser itself. For a better overview of browser security, we recommend Secunia.

We would welcome full disclosure of the methodology from NSS Labs, including the URLs actually used in the tests, so we could better understand the results they obtained.”

Google previously criticized the test results provided by NSS Labs. According to NSS Labs, Opera blocked 0% of the tested malware, Chrome 6 3%, Safari 5 11%, Firefox 3.6 19% while IE8 covered 90% and IE9 99%

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