Security outfit calls for roll back of IE

Ever since I read the article here about Chrome being the most secure of the browsers because of it's sandbox feature I switched to it from Firefox. It has a spell checker (weak compared to Open Office) built in. It is fast. The only thing I don't like are the download feature. If you are downloading a file and close the browser it drops your download, unlike Firefox that keeps a download box open for you.

So IE8 pukes when Kasperski is on the PC? Any complaints from non-Kaspersky IE8 users?

What did you expect, that they'd recommend you install a better AV product which doesn't crash all of the time due to their own bad code?

IE has been in public beta for over a year giving the Kaspersky guys plenty of time to fix their buggy code. They didn't.

No other AV engine has such problems.

As a technician, I've seen numerous problems on computers that were the result of Kaspersky not playing nicely with other basic programs and drivers. There are problems with IE8, but this looks like it may be Kaspersky not playing nice with IE8.

The Day chrome came out ei7 or 8 went to shit, slow to load laggy etc..., i say google is messing ie up to promote its product....

Im not joking....

There is a simple fix for IE 8. Firefox!

IE8 with Avast here on a netbook - running quite well..as to Chrome or Firefox - no thanks...

Still too heavyweight and unstable. Old-school AV's need to go the way of the dodo. This problem doesn't surprise me.

I am absolutely positive that IE8 has a number of holes - but I don't think having Krapersky installed is making it any better.

I've still got active licenses for Krapersky but after one too many issues just moved onto lighter, stable and just as protective AV's, which are all playing fine with IE8.

Maybe this is why I use Firefox.

This is by my experience the best combo so far:

FireFox: Unless you must access ActiveX content,which is only possible with IE8,stick to Firefox. It's faster, especially with flash, is much more flexible with TONS of FREE and actually GOOD plug-in. The customization level is just awesome. It's more stable in my experience and is reputed more secure than IE8. Google Chrome is a cool and never ending Beta product with much potential. Great tow but nothing more substantial for now. Been using IE for over 10 years, switched to Firefox last year and never looked back. I now only use IE8 to play poker on ActiveX MSN game...

Bitdefender 2009: Not the best interface I ever used, but it has a very low footprint on my PC resources, very high detection rate (among the top 5 on the market) for all sort of malware, not only viruses, a very good firewall and include many other utilities. I've fooled around with a lot a network apps (Proxy, sniffer, tracker, wireless, FTP SMB web servers etc...) and Bitdefender never got in the way.

Only my 2 cents...

Ramon

Man I wish I could hate IE again, but IE8 actually rocks. Most problems seem to center around the new DEP protection, which can be disabled (though not recommended these days because most need all the security they can get).

why are people still even using IE :(

i stopped using IE in the days when netscape was around.

I'm not a browser snob and have never been bothered by IE enough to switch to an alternative, and I've always upgraded to the latest version MS put out.

IE8 though is unusable. Many of the sites I used on a daily basis just don't work in some fairly significant way. The compatability mode doesn't always help you out either.

Thankfully, the uninstall process worked very well.

Definitely the worst browser I ever used.

I DO NOT have Kaspersky installed on any of my 6 machines and IE8 does nothing but crash.

Only took a few minutes for me to roll back to IE7.

If I could, I'd switch back to IE6 on the 4 machines that have IE7 also, as it is dumber than a box of rocks in the fact it can't even remember user names/passwords on site I WANT it to, after a reboot!

We have had nothing but trouble with ie8 customers can't login to webmail, and no browsing issues ie8 sucks we are telling everybody to go firefox

Ever since Microsoft patched a few huge security holes about four months ago, IE7 has been somewhat unstable. IE8 doesn't seem to be any worse.

I haven't had any significant problems with IE8 other than the lingering instablility, but I suspect that will improve as Microsoft fixes the problems caused by their apparently somewhat rushed fix to the IE code base.

I like Firefox ok, but Chrome has a lot of weird lockups on some sites, and they are far worse than the problems with IE. Chrome also has similar problems to Opera in the way it caches pages too much and fails to update pages when they have been changed dynamically on the other end.

Use a real security suite that has a real grasp on todays ever changing technology.

Dustyn, indeed. Like Symantec Security Suite or McAfee!

Wonderful software that almost makes my 16GB 4GHz Quadcore usable.