Steven, there was once a time that I thought IE was everything. But since I switched to FireFox, I now only get the occaisional spyware/adware from downloading.
I use MSN explorer which (contrary to popular belief) is nothing to do with IE (except they are both made my Microsoft) its very good, easy to use and fast, but im considering getting firefox because MSN randomly disabled cookies, I cant change it back so I cant check my emails on my laptop (I need cookies enabled to check my emails)