For additional spyware detection use Microsoft Anti-spyware, or its new version Beta Windows Defender. Both are free and work well in conjunction with Spybot S & D. I also say go with AVG as it works well. Norton is basically no more as its all part of Symantec now. I use Symantec AV Corp edition and it works well, but it does have some performance things to watch out for. In particular an auto-created startup scan that likes to chew up memory and processor cycles and make the pc run like a dog. Theirs a registry fix for it however.
I use IE on a daily basis and as mentioned, when configured right, its pretty much as secure as anything else. A lot of these issues come down to personal preference and how convinient particular features are. If you want to lock down IE, you can certainly do so.
Lots of people dislike IE because it doesn't always faithfully follow set HTML standards and the like, which prompts people to design web interfaces to work with IE rather than W3 standards. But whatever. I'm not a web developer, so it doesn't really impact me
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I use IE on a daily basis and as mentioned, when configured right, its pretty much as secure as anything else. A lot of these issues come down to personal preference and how convinient particular features are. If you want to lock down IE, you can certainly do so.
Lots of people dislike IE because it doesn't always faithfully follow set HTML standards and the like, which prompts people to design web interfaces to work with IE rather than W3 standards. But whatever. I'm not a web developer, so it doesn't really impact me
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