The Mail today suggests that people using IE are best advised to change to Firefox, Opera or such, due to the massive hacking.
Yeah, the media do this about, oh, every five minutes or so. Most people ignore them and survive perfectly happily.
What none of these news articles do, probably on account of the journos who write them haven't a clue what they're wittering about, which might be actually useful, is tell you what sort of dodgy web site to avoid visiting and what activities to avoid performing whilst there. Then you could make an informed decision.