[themagain]

Is it true that Internet Explorer is unsafe and unsecure?

[MiloseviC]

Well, it depends if you have the right patches for it. Most people just abandom IE (like me) and switch to FireFox, but if you have all the nessesary upgrades and you are ALWAYS careful and you are a security geek (like me), then you should be fine with IE.Some nice "includes" to IE would be McAffe SiteAdvisor, which determines if a site is "bad" or "good", like for example: CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR FREE XBOX 360! or yahoo.comThe first site would be a "bad" or "warned" site and the second would be a good site.BUT.Yahoo might be a "warned" site because it might have some links TO bad sites.

[MiloseviC]

sorry for double post, but:or you can just switch to FireFox.

[themagain]

yeah we made the switch to firefox because we had heard that IE was a very unscure browser.

[TheNameless]

If they would actually plug the holes that are public, and be proactive for future possible exploitation, it might actually be worthy to be called a browser. ActiveX is probably the biggest problem, as we wouldn't have nearly as much spyware if it weren't for the fact that IE uses it.To get an idea about how insecure IE is, just look at secunia.

[nana]

All of a sudden, the look of IE has changed on my home page, or anywhere I surf to from a bookmark, except if I open a link (my toolbars look normal when I do that). Also, when I click on a bookmark, the page jiggles a bit before it switches to the new page. Did I pick up something bad somehow? I was watching some drum videos from a drum magazine and I kept getting the 'activate Active X' pop up. Why would something change the look of IE on my home page and not other pages I surf to? How do I get my toolbars on my home page to look like they used to and how they look on other pages? I went to Secunia and did their test for browser spoofing and it was ok, but I linked from here....it just occurred to me...do I need to do it from my home page? Thanks!