Browser Security News

Mozilla is still wrestling with adding a security feature to Firefox that its browser rival, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, uses on Windows Vista to keep malware from hijacking computers. In Vista, IE7 uses a technique Microsoft calls Protected Mode – another name for "low rights" - that blocks disk access to all but a temporary-files folder. The idea is that if an exploit - a drive-by download, for instance - attacks IE7 through a browser vulnerability, it can’t install code on the PC’s drive.

Last October, after Firefox developers had spent several days at Microsoft’s headquarters with the Vista team, a Mozilla engineer said they had come away with thoughts on how Firefox might take advantage of Vista’s low-rights features. Mozilla ponders using Vista security for Firefox 3.0 - ComputerworldUK - The Voice of IT Management