Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer

Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer | Defensive Computing - CNET News.com

A few recent stories highlighted a bedrock of Defensive Computing -
if you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using Firefox
as opposed to Internet Explorer.

On June 26th at ZDNet Ryan Naraine wrote about a new bug in Internet Explorer (Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer)
for which Microsoft has no fix/patch. A few days later, he documented how the bad guys were exploiting this bug (Exploit code released for unpatched IE 7 vulnerability).
That story starts with "Another day, another gaping hole affecting
fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser." We've
been down this road before.

The original source for stories about this particular bug is US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#516627 which says the bug affects IE6, IE7 and even the beta edition of the upcoming IE8. A trifecta.

Oh, then of course there is also this reason, perhaps the most convincing: