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Wikipedia wrote:Internet Explorer comes under heavy scrutiny from the computer security research community, in part due to its sheer ubiquity. Exploitation of Internet Explorer's security holes has earned IE the reputation as the least secure of the major web browsers.

Some users have criticised the Phishing Filter for being too easy to circumvent. One successful method of bypassing Internet Explorer's Phishing Filter has been reported by redirecting a blacklisted web page to another, nonblacklisted page, using a server-side redirect. Until the new page is blocked as well, the attack can remain active.

This flaw means that Phishers can keep links from previous emails functioning by simply moving to a new server when their original web page is blacklisted and adding a redirect.

This has been criticised as doubly serious as the presence of a phishing filter may lull users into a false sense of security when the filter can be bypassed.

Other criticisms concern Internet Explorer's support of open standards. Although Internet Explorer 7 is significantly more compliant than previous versions, it remains the least standards-compliant of any major browser.[20]

It is also claimed that lack of support in Internet Explorer is responsible for holding back the widespread adoption by webmasters of several new open technology standards[attribution needed] (for example, PNG, which has been supported by many browsers since 1996, and yet was not completely supported in Internet Explorer until version 7, and also SVG, supported elsewhere in 2001, and as of yet unsupported in Internet Explorer without a 3rd party plugin).

Web developers must work with the technology supported across all browsers for cross-platform development, and Internet Explorer is often criticized for being technically inferior[citation needed]. These include supporting fewer or wrongly interpreting more CSS, HTML, and DOM features than Firefox or Opera and not having native XHTML support.[21] As a result of these, it does not pass the Acid2 test, a test case designed by the Web Standards Project to verify CSS compliance.