Firefox

This reviewer shows how you can infect Internet Explorer while using Firefox, even with IE turned off. Click through for the whole story.

Congratulations! Your PC is boned!

It goes without saying that, apart from Webrebates opening up adverts in the bottom right hand corner, whole swathes of entries in my favourites advertising "Adware removers" that also sell popup blockers (with popups!), Powerscan which loads at startup, yelling "DON'T GET CAUGHT WITH PORN ON YOUR PC!", a Sidefind bar that doesn't actually do very much and an MTV toolbar to keep the kids quiet, there was my jaw being slowly scraped off the floor as I realised in that instant that for all Firefox's bravado, it had been cut down dead in an instant by what would normally be a bunch of rather average Adware installs.

The problem is, IE shouldn't have been hit in this way - especially as it was locked down so tightly, and wasn't even being used at the time. Vaguely worried by this, I tried some other browsers...the results aren't exactly fantastic reading for the Mozilla Foundation.

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