Intrusion Detection and Prevention

[Archon_Wing]

The thing that makes IE less secure than everything else is thanks to Active X. That allows things to be secretly installed or installed without your permission. Malicious websites will usually throw up things to distract you while their crap is silently installed- even with higher security settings. If you disable Active X, you will constantly get a annoying warning message.

Another thing is that in later versions of Windows like XP, IE is "integrated" into the OS. The results of IE being compromised is pretty obvious. Your whole operating system is vulnerable. Even if someone managed to get you in Mozilla or opera, the most you'd have to do is reinstall the browser. Sure it's possible to secure IE too, but it requires much more effort.

Oh yea, and MS is constantly releasing security patches to cover up their holes. Like this one: http://www.secunia.com/internet_explorer_a..._spoofing_test/

BTW, if you think you can avoid these problems by not visiting crack sites or other shady sites, you're wrong. People have been infected by visiting supposedly innocolus sites or sites that you could google up.