[ScottM1968]

Mozilla's Firefox will not do that. Go to the link mentioned above to download Firefox.

It is the current best competitor to IE. As the article mentioned, no version of IE is fixed yet.

IE is a major source of spyware infiltration on people's computers. Its main advantage at one time was its use of Active-X routines to allow near-complete control of your computer via web pages (thus greatly lowering bandwidth need and greatly increasing graphic possibilities). It is this same benefit that is now exploited via spyware programs. These programs are downloaded (often without permission) onto your computer and can collect all keystrokes from within your browser.

Java, rather than Active-X, is used by all other browsers. IE also uses Java, thus maintaining the greatest level of capability but at the aforementioned risk.

[Weirdad]

Firefox IS affected if you right click and choose to open in a new tab or window. Bad because that it how I open many links in all the browsers I use. Opera is unaffected, though. See post #40.

[Fire_on_High]

Of course the first thing most smart IE users do if forced to use it is shut off unsigned AX and make signed work on a permission only basis.