Is OpenBSD more secure than Windows?

From: Unknown User (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:32:11 -0300

I bought a computer and it had Windows installed and I'm thinking about
moving to OpenBSD, but from my research, OpenBSD is less secure than
Windows because you can't install install Norton anti-virus on OpenBSD. I
wouldn't be able to access the Internet then, using OpenBSD. I also found
out that you can't have Internet Explorer on OpenBSD, and I wonder how I
would surf the web other than with Internet Explorer.
I really hope Microsoft ports Internet Explorer to OpenBSD and that
Symantec releases a version for OpenBSD to protect it, so that I can give
it a try. Without Internet Explorer, OpenBSD is pretty unusable, sorry. 

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