I have the old Netscape still installed as well as Internet Explorer and Firefox just as backups in case I ever need to get online and something goes awry with IE.
I have always used IE with no problems of security breaches, etc.
I have to repeat my oft-used term: When a supposedly otherwise competent computer tech has problems with a computer, the problem usually lies between the chair and keyboard.
Generally speaking, ( and I'll probably get flamed for this, ) I have found that those people who complaim about Microsoft, IE, ad infinitum AND ad nauseum, are disgruntled and jealous of Microsoft for the same reason that foreigners hate the USA.....jealousy, envy and resentment.....hating # 1.....it's almost a custom and, if not, then a tradition in many places. :-)
Once installed Adaware/Search and Destroy on Official Muttly Supercomputer IBM Brain.
Fouled everything up, and had a hard time removing it.
Reminds me of a chicken bone stuck in my craw once...but then again, almost everything does.
Me not munking-up Muttly window on the world ever again...well..not like that, anyway.