Internet Explorer is the functional equivalent of a sewer pipe from the internet to your hard drive.
In two months, a friend of mine accumulated four viruses, nine adware/spywares and over 300 malicious items such as cookies or registry entries. All of this was pumped onto her hard drive with internet explorer.
Signed, Proud Mozilla user.
I'm a little late on this discussion, but I have to second your thoughts. I had to dump IE at home when even my ad killer software and the pop-up blocker on the google bar failed to work much of the time.
It got to the point I just couldn't get any work done, and because I'm doing doctoral work in information science and the Internet is my best buddy, I need to be able to get in and get out w/o killing pop-ups all the time or having spyware slow down my machine.
I'm going to have to add this thread to my, 'FReepers are wonderful people, but some of them are completely crazy' file.
Cleanup in Aisle 9! LOL