[cz777]

It been 1 week of hell with I.E8 failing to open new tads [freezing ups] and links off of pages.e-mail [not opening]! i found two causes so far so is a heads up for all- I.E.8 is NOT so tough but weak knees at best ,what did it was two things atlas dmt with a thing called ''switch dialer ''....i deteted I.E.8 back to i.e.7 ..after 4 months of 8 now it breaks down so easily ,very poor! stay away from 8!

[Eldmannen]

I've experienced slow performance with Internet Explorer 8.
Internet Explorer 8 is more standards-compliant than Internet Explorer 7 though, which is a good thing.

I don't think Internet Explorer is a good browser. Not even a decent browser.

I would recommend Mozilla Firefox.

[cluberti]

Well, to each his/her own. I prefer firefox as well, but IE8 behaving that badly is most definitely some sort of add-on or plug-in (I've seen it many times myself). See if the same problems reproduce running IE8 in no-addons mode (iexplore.exe -extoff) in Safe Mode w/Networking (if you can). If it doesn't, it's not IE8 but an add-in.

[James_A]

Getting rid of the Spyware/Adware (atlas dmt) and the Trojan (Switch dialer) is a better idea than going back to IE7.

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[greenknight]

Really, IE7 is not more secure than IE8, more likely less. Figure out what's wrong with your security set-up that allowed the malware to infect your machine.

I also use Firefox, by the way, with the NoScript extension (which blocks most exploits).