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Originally Posted by red-beard

I don't understand why people think they are safer with Fixefox, or whatever instead of IE. At least MS will own up to vulnerabilities and patch ASAP. I don't think it is that the others are inherently safer than IE.

If you wanted to catch as many fish as quickly as possible, and there was a pond that was full of fish. 99% of the fish will be caught with worms, but 1% of the fish can only be caught with frogs (whatever, I'm not a fisher). Would you use worms or frogs for bait?? I suspect you'd use worms. I'm sure there would be some fishermen out there that would really prefer the fish that only eat frogs and would target those, but most of the pop would go for the easy pickin's.

MSIE has a huge, enormous majority of the browser market. If you're a "hacker" or hoodlum, you can target either/any browser, but if you want to wreak maximum havoc, you'll target MSIE.