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Old 06-27-2007
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Originally Posted by JP_II View Post
Internet Explorer itself is the virus you mean.....

There are lots of other Browsers which are much better....

Regarding the point of Web-Browsing Microsoft really is old-fashioned!

Internet Explorer has too many secure holes and even doesn't support tabbed browsing...


Try Firefox or Opera and ban Internet Explorer (or directly Microsoft) of your hard disk and your virus-problem will be fixed!


Greets,

Jan
There are many reports that show Firefox having more security vulnerabilities than IE. Some of the "religous posts" about browers in this thread are simply wrong.

Here is a link to a blog post that show a graphic of both Firefox and IE critical vulnerabilities in 2006. You can see that Firefox's critical vulnerabilities was almost twice that of IE!