Security defects have long provoked Internet Explorer , the market-dominating web browser from Microsoft. IE won the early on browser wars, not only because it was free and bundled with Windows, but because it had some characteristics and capabilities that its only real competitor, Netscape, didn't have. But the behind-the-scenes programming that makes those features possible is the very coding that also leaves wide gaps in IE's defenses against viruses and malicious scripting.

confirm, there are other browsers like the one from Mozilla and their freshest release, Firefox. There are some flavors of IE overlays, which use the core IE programming for web page display, and thus aren't any safer than the original IE. between non-IE browsers, it looks to be down to a two-horse race among Mozilla and Opera.