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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 361991" data-attributes="member: 16749">It is a very bad practice to use Internet Explorer for general web browsing.&nbsp; Consider Microsoft's Windows Update web site.&nbsp; Visiting this site with Internet Explorer allows you to download and install updates to the Windows Operating system from entirely within the browser.&nbsp; Think about what this means.&nbsp; This web browser—the same one you may be using to visit other sites of varying degrees of repute, has the power to alter the operating system itself, on the basis of what a web site offers it.&nbsp; As easily as it can download and install legitimate updates from Microsoft, it can download and install malicious software from some dodgy site that you may have visited.&nbsp; The only thing you should be doing with Internet Explorer, other than using it to visit only Microsoft's own update sites that require it, is to download and install a different browser to be used for everything else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 361991, member: 16749"] It is a very bad practice to use Internet Explorer for general web browsing. Consider Microsoft's Windows Update web site. Visiting this site with Internet Explorer allows you to download and install updates to the Windows Operating system from entirely within the browser. Think about what this means. This web browser—the same one you may be using to visit other sites of varying degrees of repute, has the power to alter the operating system itself, on the basis of what a web site offers it. As easily as it can download and install legitimate updates from Microsoft, it can download and install malicious software from some dodgy site that you may have visited. The only thing you should be doing with Internet Explorer, other than using it to visit only Microsoft's own update sites that require it, is to download and install a different browser to be used for everything else. [/QUOTE]

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