Most people get viruses from Internet Explorer. Why keep using it? It has terrible security, crashes many times, and pretty much to sum it up: It blows.
So why not go and use other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. Look at these positives and negatives of each browser. It's amazing how bad a browser can suck when there is even a smaller browser that came out in 2004 (firefox) which is about 1000x times better.
Firefox
+ Very easy to customize and style
+ Internet Options very simple to manage
+ A nice Bookmarks toolbar
+ Able to install many many extensions which are on the mozilla.org website. Each extension/add-on is checked.
+ VERY VERY VERY SECURE!
+ Big fixes and a nice forum to help you with any trouble you "think" you encounter with firefox.
+ Uses fewer resources than IE
+ Built in Search Engines for easy searching with Google, Yahoo!, and many more. You can even add more search engines.
+ Superb popup block feature
+ Able to block images from websites so you can get rid of those annoying fastclick.net and many other ads
+ Can open new windows in tabs, so you don't have to have 500 windows open anymore.
+ Almost all languages suppoted!
- Can't do Windows Updates UNLESS you have the IE Tab extension installed.
(In conclusion, whatever Firefox doesn't have, there is an extension for it, so you can have everything!)
Firefox Screenshot - .png file about 150 KB
Internet Explorer
+ The only browser able to use Windows Updates
+ Comes with XP and you don't have to download or install it unless it gets corrupted which happens to many.
- VERY VERY VERY EASY TO HACK
- Looks like crap
- Doesn't have that many features
- So many bugs
- Hardly ever updated
- Whenever a feature is added, it has 100 more bugs they need to solve
C'mon, guess which browser I use. I use IE only for Windows Updates. You decide which one you want. Let me just say one last thing, so many viruses that come out almost daily infect IE first because so many people use it, cause they don't know any better. However, the same virus/adware would most likely be blocked by the good ol' fox!
Click here to Download Firefox. Scroll down to see the features more in depth. And yes, firefox is free.
And if you STILL think IE is better then look at this nice little Firefox Flick. Let your decision be wise.
~Ron
PS: Firefox sure must be good for someone to create a website called www.firefoxflicks.com with 1000s of firefox animations to promote it.
Thank you Andavari for helping.