fact is so many people us IE because it is there to use out of the box as it were being integral to windows. Like most people on here I use Firefox and have always used other browsers except int eh early days when Netscape was to slow for some things and IE was just that bit zippier

Of course times have changes, but if it wasn;t for IE having such a share do you not hik that the hackers etc would be looking at Firefox or similar to break in to?

Is it not more than coincidence that sinice IE has such a big market share because its already there to use, that it is teh reason it is mostly attacked? Similar arguments apply to why Macs have fewer viruses than PCs - because the user base in many respects is smaller, so if you want to do damage/steal info/wahtever - attack the "larger market" and go for the PCs running a very common app