Today we announced we are partnering with eBay to highlight eBay Daily Deals through Internet Explorer 8 using a Web Slice. The eBay Daily Deals Web Slice will keep folks informed popular products selling at pretty nice discounts. The Web Slice sits on a person’s Favorites Bar in Internet Explorer 8 and will offer continued updates and detailed information about eBay Daily Deals.

You can get the eBay Daily Deals Web Slice by clicking here. You can also add eBay as a Search Provider (which uses Visual Search) in Internet Explorer 8 and also the eBay Accelerator.

For more information on our partnership with eBay, see PressPass.

While shopping online, being secure is very important to consumers. We developed Internet Explorer 8 with that in mind. Back in August, I blogged about a study done by NSS Labs that shows that Internet Explorer 8 is the #1 browser in malware protection and also the #1 browser in phishing protection. You can read that post here. I encourage folks making online purchases to use Internet Explorer 8 to stay safe and secure.

Today, socially engineered malware threats are on the rise and are heavily impacting the way people use the Internet - making it a consumer and industry issue.

A new study released today from NSS Labs shows that Internet Explorer 8 is the #1 browser in malware protection and also the #1 browser in phishing protection. The independent test results showed that Internet Explorer 8 blocks 3 times more malware threats than Firefox 3 and 10 times more malware threats than Google Chrome 2.

Given how Internet Explorer 8 performs against these socially engineered malware and phishing threats and the ongoing threat that cybercriminals pose against Internet users today, this is another good reason for consumers to upgrade to a modern browser and move on from earlier versions like Internet Explorer 6 where security issues were not then what they are today.

For more information on this new NSS Labs study and how Internet Explorer 8 continues to help keep people protected while browsing the web – see this blog post from the Internet Explorer Team on the IEBlog.