Internet Explorer unsafe

Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. This is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker.

A fully-patched installation of Internet Explorer doesn't mean that the user is safe from malware. For over half of 2004, 54 percent of the time (200 days), a worm or virus was in the wild that could take advantage of additional vulnerabilities for which a patch was not available from Microsoft.