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Explorer uses ActiveX which allows Web pages to execute program code on your machine - and there's no way for you to know ahead of time whether that code is harmless or a malicious attack on your computer.

Because Internet Explorer is the most popular browser so people send malware to it more often than other lesser popular browsers. LPC

Also Internet explorer is closely integrated with windows components

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