Browser Wars focuses on security Zhou Hongyi exposing Google's "conspiracy" (1)

Bkjia.com comprehensive report] "Many people are talking about Google's Chrome browser's competition with Microsoft IE8 and Firefox. I don't quite agree with these ideas. In the long run, Chrome is not just a browser, but a 'Web development platform' under the 'browser' banner '. The real purpose is to break the Microsoft 'economic system' ecosystem balance based on Windows API, so as to achieve Microsoft's long-term goal of disruption ." In September 10, Zhou Hongyu said with an astonishing explanation that Google's new Chrome browser may have hidden a huge "conspiracy ". On the same day, Qihoo 360 upgraded its 360 security browser, which has been in public beta for more than four months, to the official version 1.2.

"Although Google's new Chrome browser highlights the security, more and more netizens are paying attention to the security of the Internet, but most netizens do not know whether their browsers are safe enough ." Zhou Hongyi said: "With more network security technologies such as 'sandbox', 'automatic blocking of malicious URLs ', and 'intelligent interception of malicious code on webpages, security will become a key indicator in the new round of browser wars."

The four new and old forces in the browser war are playing security cards

Zhou Hongyi spoke in the background that Microsoft and Google's two major international giants have made remarkable moves on their browsers over the past two weeks.

On September 18, August 27, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0IE8 (Microsoft Explorer) Beta II was officially unveiled on Microsoft's official website. IE8 has made great breakthroughs in user privacy protection and security, not only by providing "private browsing" InPrivate) mode to ensure that the user does not leave browsing records, temporary network files, Cookis and other private information on the computer after the Internet access, and allows the user to intercept third-party software that tries to track the user's network behavior. Microsoft executives attacked Google's Privacy Protection Technology by taking the opportunity to "lag behind Microsoft for 10 years ".

Just as voice was written, Google launched the Chrome browser test version for the first time worldwide in September 2. In addition to the open-source, cool, and concise interfaces, Google's biggest highlight is security: the "sandbox" technology is used to support secure browsing in the Multi-label mode, it effectively solves the problem of false positives. It has built-in anti-phishing and anti-malware functions, and provides privacy protection functions like Microsoft IE8.

Microsoft and Google are not the first websites to focus on browser security. In fact, Qihoo 360 began planning and developing secure browsers as early as the end of last year. On June 19, April 30 this year, Qihoo 360, together with Phoenix studio and Israeli security vendors, jointly launched the 360 security browser 0.5 test version, for the first time, security protection functions and applications such as "intelligent interception of malicious code on Web pages", "automatic shielding of malicious web sites", and "sandbox" were added to the browser, the standards of the Web security browser have been raised to a new level. After four test versions, Qihoo 360 finally released the official version 1.2.

It is reported that the security of Firefox and Opera will become one of the most important content in its product upgrade. Interestingly, on the second day after Google launched its browser, rising, a Chinese antivirus vendor, also launched the 1.0 beta version of Rising's security browser. This version is mainly based on Firefox, two or three basic security functions are added. According to millila China's self-proclaimed lack of cooperation with rising, this should be self-developed by rising with Firefox's open source code.

For international giants such as Microsoft and Google, and with the same strength in browser security, Qihoo 360 and other domestic security vendors have launched "secure browsers". Many Internet companies have opened browser security cards. Zhou Hongyi believes that this is not an accident.

According to Zhou, Qihoo 360 switched to anti-Trojan and malware as early as the end of last year, and listed browser-side Trojan protection as an important product direction. Zhou Hongyi said that browsers, like search, email, and IM tools, have already become the most common basic Internet applications for Internet users. With the rapid development of the Internet, Trojan horses have replaced viruses and become the leading public hazard on the Internet. Currently, more than 90% of Trojans, viruses, and other malicious programs are spread through webpages, as a portal for users to access the Internet, browsers shoulder the unshirkable protection responsibility.

"If powerful security measures can be set in the browser, it can help users effectively block the intrusion of most Trojan Horses ." Zhou Hongyi believes that "in the past, the security of browsers was ignored by many netizens. People will take it for granted the important task of protecting computer security to anti-virus software. However, nowadays, the spread of Trojans is different from the protection methods of viruses, and many traditional anti-virus software have been unable to cope. Therefore, the launch of secure browsers is entirely out of the need to protect users' computers ."