Opera Software today shipped a new version of its Web browser that the company says will help protect users from Web sites that try to install malicious software. The new version, Opera 9.5, is available here. Opera is the latest browser maker to include anti-malware capabilities. The beta versions of both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 include similar features. Opera spokesman Thomas Ford said the new software’s malware-blocking capability comes from Seattle-based Haute Secure, a security company started by four former Microsoft employees. If an Opera user tries to visit a site included on Haute’s blacklist, Opera will display a fraud warning saying the page has been reported for distributing malicious software (see the screen shot to the right). Ford noted that unlike Firefox, which each day downloads a list of dangerous sites provided by Google through a partnership with Stopbadware.org, Opera 9.5 consults Haute’s database with each page