kaled - 7:30 pm on Dec 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Webmasters often turn on IE

What's this "turn on/off" palava?

Firefox is my default browser. If I want to test with Opera and/or Internet Explorer I just start them. Where does "turning on or off" come into anything?

So far as I am aware, no one has ever suggested that an infection that enters through Internet Explorer is somehow locked to that browser. A remote code execution fault normally means that the browser might do anything that is capable within the security context of the process (i.e. the browser). For instance, under XP running as an adminstrator, it could delete all your files, or trash the registry. This is the main reason Microsoft introduced User Account Control in Vista (but got it horribly wrong).

Kaled.