Story: IE is broken: can you fix it?

Posted by: David Tai (Friday 16 July 2004, 3:31 AM)

yes, IE has holes, but they all require either very obscure conditions to be effective (how many readers had their banking info stolen due to one of its flaws?), or truly newbie users. as the article mentions, you're really in trouble if you don't run antivirus/spyware programs/firewalls. or don't patch (which is almost automatic, and there r almost no new patches necessary anymore). EVERYONE should be doing this, and these solutions are available freely. THEN you can enjoy all the flashing animations n twirling icons you like (i don't) AND have security.
when everyone switches to mozilla, u can bet there'd b obscure "threat alerts" coming up all the time once again. and the comment abt shell integration is simply false. the latest mozilla security bug was due to shell integration which shouldn't hv occured in the first place. so there. (though of course, it was an obscure security threat too).