Hmmmmmmmmm,

I don't think it matters what your opinion of IE is? The fact is that around 80% of the World's PCs run Microsoft operating systems and IE ships with them. That makes it a major potential vector in the spread of malware, so I would have thought that its quality or lack thereof would be of more than passing interest to the IT security community?

I say this, having considered that most of the people who chose an alternative browser have at least some security awareness and are probably taking other precautions as well.

Unfortunately, IE is the biggest target, and is used by the most security illiterate sectors of the PC user community.

just my £0.02