I did like IE at one point until I got fed up with its security issues and popups. I used Opera for ages and ages but migrated over to FireFox.
When I first got the internet I was pretty dim on the whole virus, spyware lark as I never would of thought that browsing the internet could lead to malicious programs being downloaded without my say so and executed.
Mind you, is IE soley the problem? of course not, windows is so full of holes is stupid.
The scariest thing I ever saw was when I booted up a brand new out of the box laptop and plugged it into broadband only to have a virus hit the system within 10 seconds (no internet explorer or other browser was open). Luckily the laptop came pre-installed with the awful panda anti-virus and stopped it. This was Windows XP with (at the time) the latest Service Pack 1.
Without heading into rant mode, for the largest software company in the world to have security issues like that is crazy.
These days I don't trust IE and especially Windows in general for security. I'd never buy a MS security package EVER. I'll stick to 3rd party browsers, anti-virus, software and hardware firewalls.
When I first got the internet I was pretty dim on the whole virus, spyware lark as I never would of thought that browsing the internet could lead to malicious programs being downloaded without my say so and executed.
Mind you, is IE soley the problem? of course not, windows is so full of holes is stupid.
The scariest thing I ever saw was when I booted up a brand new out of the box laptop and plugged it into broadband only to have a virus hit the system within 10 seconds (no internet explorer or other browser was open). Luckily the laptop came pre-installed with the awful panda anti-virus and stopped it. This was Windows XP with (at the time) the latest Service Pack 1.
Without heading into rant mode, for the largest software company in the world to have security issues like that is crazy.
These days I don't trust IE and especially Windows in general for security. I'd never buy a MS security package EVER. I'll stick to 3rd party browsers, anti-virus, software and hardware firewalls.