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Originally posted by bloodjelly
I switched to Firefox when word of that big IE bug came out - the one where a hacker could gain control of your computer just from you visiting an infected web page.
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There ARE Internet Explorer holes that's still to be fixed by Microsoft. Some even a few years old if I'm not mistaken.
Found this out the hard way when I was curious as to why my friend's computer kept on getting trashed by spyware and trojans (even after I installed firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, updated it with the latest critical updates, etc)
Then I found several websites detailing various security holes in IE that's still ignored by Microsoft.
Apparently, they simply have no incentive to fix it, since they already monopolise the browser market. Heck, I was told that IE is not even CSS 1.0 compliant.
Switched them to Firefox, and I haven't heard any complain from them since.
I wrote my experience here as information for others :
http://www.harrysufehmi.com/phpwiki/...indowsComputer
cheers, HS