And if you also read the start "old version of IE, NON-patched" Firefox, as things stand, isn't exploited because, like virii for Linux and MacOS, not enough people USE it. Once something becomes majority, all the flaws show up, because it becomes a target. So debating about which one is superior based on how it can be exploited, rather than it's features, is flawed, everything has some kind of exploit, IE is just a way to affect more people at once, currently.

Premium members do not get ads from us. I would suggest running a spyware removal program on your computer to eliminate the source.

Two of many options out there:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

this isnt about IE vs Firefox as much mas MS would like it to be. I dont say that becuase I hate MS,I say that becuase MS is a corporation that wants people to use their product. They are therefore biased tward their product. Microsoft would like this to be a debate,that would imply that there was a MS side to this. There isnt. Firefox is more secure. Some of that comes from the way firefox is desighned,most of it comes from the fact that most people use IE. I wouldnt say that everyone should use Firefox. If everyone did,it would have many of the same problems IE has. I recomend firefox to people now,becuase it is more secure. If everyone starts using it and exploits start popping up,I will recomend something else. What I tell people is that IE is not secure,and they need to change to something else and NEVER use IE unless its a trusted website AND its absolutely neccesary.(for instance,some banks,etc require it because becuase they built their site for it) Opera is just as good as Firefox as far as Im concerned. Any browser that isnt mainstream is usually pretty good. I dont really care what feature IE has that their competition doesnt. Its all about the security of the browse,all else is secondary in this world. In the next several years however I expect MS to get better about these things. If they dont,someone else will. Imagine if someone came to your buisness and suggested that you switch to their software,at a cost of half a million dollars to install it and retrain your employees. Most buisnesses tell them to take a hike. Imagine however if the salesman asked the question "how much money did you spend last year on security problems and lost productivity because of the software you use." If the answer to that is more than 500 dollars,he just made a sale. If microsoft doenst fix the problem ,someone sooner or later will. Its simple economics,and its alreaady happening with their browsers.

doubled >.<

Edited, Sat Oct 8 22:12:55 2005

the reason people like to spread the word about Firefox is because there is no advertisement for Firefox. Word of mouth (including IMs, LiveJournals, and email) is the only way to find out about it.

Personally, I use Firefox because of the tabbed browsing.

Internet Explorer??? what is that? people still use that?.. i've been using firefox since v0.9? 0.8? i forget.

Don't bash MS IE so much, I have no problems with it. I keep my machine patched with windowsupdate.microsoft.com, I have a good AV and Firewall (Symantec AV 9.0 and Symantec Personal Firewall), and everythings good.

Just need to keep up on your OS.

Edited, Fri Oct 7 15:14:56 2005

There are still some popup things that manage to get through firefox and annoy the **** out of me. I hate those things with a passion.

Please don't bash Allakhazam, they do their best to provide good service. Why not say "Thank you for taking care of this?" Complaining, especially public complaining, serves no purpose.

Its posts like this that clog up the forums with useless trash.

Rate down, along with everyone that did the same thing. Rate up for everyone else.