According to Computerworld reporter Gregg Keizer, August 14, 2009 12:23 PM ET

IE8's skills at sniffing out malware sites improved by 17% since March, said Rick Moy, president of NSS Labs,
the firm that conducted the benchmarks. The testing was sponsored by Microsoft's security team.

Can you smell Conflict of Interest?

you can review the original article for yourself

btw: do you know the difference between an Optimist and a Pessimist?

twenty years experience

not really no. if you have a product and want it tested, you take it to a third party for testing. Is NSS Labs owned by Microsoft or something? and IE8 they're product...who else would sponsor the testing?

so unless your making the accusation that NSS Labs are taking 'payola'...i dont see the conflict of interest. here is the study if anybody wants to review it.
http://nsslabs.com/test-reports/NSS Labs Browser Security - Socially Engineered Malware Q3 2009.pdf

yep......attitude

Right, the difference between an optimist and a pessimist.

There isn't any, it's mood dependent.

Thats kind of a rotten thing to say!

No wait...its very kind