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I'm actually using IE 6 (incl. all the patches), Firefox 1.0, Netscape 7.2 and Opera 7.54. 
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RC said:I'm using Norton Internet Security 2005, PestPatrol 4.xx, Ad-Aware 1.05, Spybot Search&Destroy 1.3, Spysweeper 3.2, Spyblaster 3.2, Trojan Defense Suite 3 (the best anti-trojan program but also difficult to understand how it works) and ProcessGuard 3.0.
Must be a war zone there, because I'm using IE6 with NO patches, and spybotSD from time to time. And no antivirus 
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Firefox is great but I'm not sure it isn't "less vulnerable to threats", I think it is just not as interesting (yet) for virus/trojan programmers, hackers, etc.
People shouldn't use Firefox and think "great, the threat is over." From my own experience, people should use a combination of different programs. I'm using Norton Internet Security 2005, PestPatrol 4.xx, Ad-Aware 1.05, Spybot Search&Destroy 1.3, Spysweeper 3.2, Spyblaster 3.2, Trojan Defense Suite 3 (the best anti-trojan program but also difficult to understand how it works) and ProcessGuard 3.0. On a 512 MB laptop with 1.1 GHz Pentium M processor and active Safe Guard Easy 4.10 (harddisc/boot real time AES-256 encryption), the system still works pretty fast.
And of course I also use Port Explorer 2.0 from time to time to check suspicious things. My laptop uses a secure WPA wireless connection to my 3com access point and the access point is connected to a switch which sends/receives it's data through a real hardware firewall with integrated router. And our mail server is behind a hardware mail firewall.
Crazy? Well, even this setup isn't 100% safe. But I didn't have any trojans, viruses or malware for months.
There is also a new program called Qwik-Fix which was free a short time ago. Unfortunately the maker of the software asks money for it now but it works great. It is actually a software which protects against the newest IE/Windows XP threads without a need for a patch from MS. And the makers update it all the time to protect against newest threats and of course they can do that much faster than MS because they don't have to re-write software code, they just have to offer an external protection.
) and it showed some incompatibilities with NIS 2004/2005 installs. And Linux isn't 100% safe as some people might think. I'm updating my webserver almost every day with some security patches or bugixes, just in case people think that Windows is evil and Linux is heaven. But of course bad guys usually focus on Windows systems and this makes Windows a potential target for viruses, trojans, dialers, malware and keyloggers.
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