I concur with 'bub' with regards to replacing IE and OE.... not a good idea. Users want compatibility, ease of use and simple support options. IE and OE are the most compatible products of their type with the vast majority of the internet, and are reasonably secure products if rule #1 (automatic updates) is followed.

MS too often gets a bad rap simply because it is the most popular. It got popular for a reason... they provided products that consumers wanted. Love it or hate it, it's a fact that us techs have to work with. Telling users not to use MS products (or any product they want to use) is not our jobs. Our job is to do our best to support and secure the products the consumer has chosen... like it or not. Non-MS products have security flaws as well, often more so than MS products. They simply have the luxury of not being as popular with consumers, and thus they are not large targets by malware writers. Believe me when I say that ANY product (Thunderbird, Linux, etc.) would have the exact same security problems MS has now if they ever became as popular as MS.

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