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I'm curious: is Edge actually more secure than Chrome? Certainly with Chrome I've noticed a large number of malicious sites don't trigger any warnings from Chr

I'm curious: is Edge actually more secure than Chrome? Certainly with Chrome I've noticed a large number of malicious sites don't trigger any warnings from Chrome at all, so Chrome certainly has a lot more work to do.

mtgx 10y ago
At least going by the recent Pwn2Own competitions, the answer seems to be no. We'll see how they fare at the next ones. The AppGuard virtualization thing or whatever they are calling it better come as an API for other apps soon as well, and I hope Microsoft won't just keep it for its own products. I could see serious anti-competitive issues with that (important OS feature being kept from competitors so Microsoft can aid its own products). I also don't understand why they are making that feature part of "Windows Defender". It doesn't make any sense to do that, except for "brand unification". I think it should be kept separate.
- Klathmon 10y ago
  AppGuard is interesting, but it's kind of "cheating". That's not to say it's a bad thing, better security is a win, but it might come with some significant downsides to battery and performance, and most likely will not be a "general purpose" security mechanism for the masses (at least right now they are only showing it off as something a corporate network admin can enable for some sites). Then again, this is all speculation. They could prove me horribly wrong and wipe the damn floor with the competition!
- dogma1138 10y ago
  AppGuard was disabled in the latest Pwn2Own AFAIK, so were a few other Windows security measures.
egwor 10y ago
This is semi-humorous and semi-serious. If so few users actually use edge then hackers won't bother trying to target it. I suspect that most people use Chrome over Edge, and the use of Edge is very small. Could this be true? Example story: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-usage-continues-to-rise-but-users-say-no-to-the-edge-browser/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-usage-continues-to-r...

mtgx 10y ago

At least going by the recent Pwn2Own competitions, the answer seems to be no. We'll see how they fare at the next ones. The AppGuard virtualization thing or whatever they are calling it better come as an API for other apps soon as well, and I hope Microsoft won't just keep it for its own products. I could see serious anti-competitive issues with that (important OS feature being kept from competitors so Microsoft can aid its own products). I also don't understand why they are making that feature part of "Windows Defender". It doesn't make any sense to do that, except for "brand unification". I think it should be kept separate.

Klathmon 10y ago
AppGuard is interesting, but it's kind of "cheating". That's not to say it's a bad thing, better security is a win, but it might come with some significant downsides to battery and performance, and most likely will not be a "general purpose" security mechanism for the masses (at least right now they are only showing it off as something a corporate network admin can enable for some sites). Then again, this is all speculation. They could prove me horribly wrong and wipe the damn floor with the competition!
dogma1138 10y ago
AppGuard was disabled in the latest Pwn2Own AFAIK, so were a few other Windows security measures.

egwor 10y ago

This is semi-humorous and semi-serious. If so few users actually use edge then hackers won't bother trying to target it. I suspect that most people use Chrome over Edge, and the use of Edge is very small. Could this be true? Example story: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-usage-continues-to-rise-but-users-say-no-to-the-edge-browser/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-usage-continues-to-r...