I agree with dixler.
If you are searching for porn, like we all do, Internet Explorer is the worst possible choice. There are so many activeX exploits, hidden downloads, and bugs that it is just not safe (back before broadband was popular re-dialers were the worst thing). Now Firefox isn't perfect, but it prevents a lot of the headaches you get from visiting certain sites. Using a combination of Avast, Malwarebytes, and Spybot as suggested above will help tremendously in prevented worms, viruses, and spyware. Just remember to keep it up to date and to do full system scans every so often. While these programs do stop a lot of things in realtime on webpages, you never no when a zip file, a rar file, or some other file you downloaded on purpose may have slipped by that has something.
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