(malware) When antivirus products (and Internet Explorer) fail you | The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/anti-virus_failures/

Good stuff. If any of my readers are actually using IE for routine web surfing, you haven't been reading my blog. Or you don't care about your machine and your data!

"Internet Explorer's interpretation and handling of mangled HTML and supported scripting input certainly contributed to making the Internet accessible to a wider audience, though now it is leading to making the platform more accessible to malware authors (if that was possible)."