Deepnet Explorer web browser

I'd never heard of Deepnet Explorer until the previous article.
They bill themselves as The World's First Web + P2P + News Browser.

The P2P part is Gnutella Share and download files while you browse the web. Search files shared by millions of other users across the Gnutella network.

There's a built-in RSS reader News Reader brings the news to you. Rather than constantly visiting your favorite news sites each day, simply subscribe to their RSS/Atom news feed and let Deepnet Explorer compile and display all the latest news on one screen.

They also have a phishing alarm. It works by using both a blacklist of known phishing sites and by analysing the URLs and Web sites.

It's for Windows only, it uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine.
That does mean it will be vulnerable to any security flaws in the engine.

Deepnet Explorer seeks to protect users against such attacks by blacklisting known phishing sites and analyzing Web addresses and Web sites. Phishing scams typically combine spam e-mail messages and Web pages that look like legitimate e-commerce sites to steal sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card numbers.

The makers of Deepnet Explorer claim their browser is "more secure" than IE or Firefox, because of the "phishing alarm" and other security features, such as a "content control" function that allows users to block ActiveX controls and other potential security risks. Also, according to Deepnet most of the security problems with IE affect the application shell, not the rendering engine that is also used by Deepnet Explorer.

One expert disagreed with Deepnet's security assessment. "They claim that most vulnerabilities are found in the IE application instead of in the rendering engine, but that's contrary to the hundreds of vulnerabilities found in the rendering engine," said Thor Larholm, senior security researcher at PivX Solutions, a security services company in Newport Beach, Ca.

from Network World Fusion Deepnet browser guards against phishing

Apparently there are other browsers based on the IE engine.

Deepnet Explorer is one of many browsers built on top of Microsoft's IE browser engine. Others include Maxthon [formerly MyIE2], NetCaptor and Optimal Desktop. The IE-based browsers typically offer features that IE itself does not, like support for RSS feeds and tabbed browsing. Firefox also includes these features.