Firefox allowed malware and viruses

My 7 yr old son browsed to a forum online, and immediately a virus warning came up from Avira -- html pages compromised. I closed the browser immediately but it was too late - a full virus scan showed thousands of html pages and exe files stored on my pc infected with RCE.gen HTML script virus or Infector gen2 virus.
How can this happen? security settings are set to max in Firefox options.
This is not the first time it has happened, simply by browsing viruses were installed. I've since completely removed Firefx from all my systems and I will never use it again. How can a browser allow viruses and malware onto the operating system? This is a disgrace.
Thank you for the massive inconvenience - these are serious threats that are not fixable and have meant 1000's of files being quarantined that render my system useless.
Fyi FFx crashed and would not restart after these issues.

Thanks for your attempt to help, but this is really not helpful at all. A quick search on the net will show that browsers - especially firefox -- are actually very vulnerable to virus/ malware attack. It seems Chrome is the safest - at the moment.
I was sitting with my son as he browsed. He clicked on nothing suspicious apart from the link that took him to the site which had the threats - www.divx----.com -- I can't remember the exact site name but there were some unsuitable adverts on the site and it did look as though it might be a forum for file sharing.
Straight away Avira kicked in with the warning as mentioned, we pulled the plug but it was already too late. I had too many apps running and by the time we'd shut down the viruses had replicated themselves throughout my system.
If you are saying that visiting an unsafe website will allow an attack you are contradicting yourself and this is exactly what should have been prevented - the allowance of the browser to affect other parts of the system.

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