IE8 to include malware filtering

New features list includes upgrade to security provision.

The next version of

Microsoft

‘s

Internet Explorer

web browser,

IE8

, could include malware detection as standard, in an improvement to the current phishing filter provided in

IE7

.

Details of a range of new additions to the browser accompanied the recent beta of

IE8

, including a redesigned favourites bar and a crash recovery system. Few firm details have been provided about how the malware filter will operate.

Microsoft

‘s summary of the new features is

here

, some comment from

ZDNet

bloggers is

here

.

Posted on 07 March 2008 by

Virus Bulletin