How appropriate. Just got in 20 minutes ago from fixing a friend's machine after the latest version of IE was hijacked and his system taken over. He's now using firefox.
Think of IE as a Virus Magnet... honest to God, I've had fewer problems with old versions of Netscape on some of the backup PC's around here. But the Fox is more modern... I've used it as my main browser since having a nasty hijack last summer. 267 viruses... and this was working behind a hardware firewall.