[VR-Zone] Microsoft's Security Essentials loses certification after failing AV-TEST

[Generic user #2]

In most cases you switch the other to any other webrowser Opera/chrome/firefox and advise the user to only use IE on web sites that don't work without it and they rarely ever have a problem.

man, i can tell you haven't done enough real-life technical support/maintenance. I can personally attest to 0% success rate in 'not using IE prevents malware."

almost all malware infections are PEBKACs.

EDIT:

to be more clear, switching browsers does NOT prevent someone from downloading from a bad link. Teaching them that clicking on bad links is bad when you switch their browsers* is the key to lower infection rates.

* you don't really even need to switch their browsers. although, as a web developer, please do anyways, anything below IE10 is unacceptable.