Yeah IE9 is a modern browser and i heard its way better. When i was IE, my system was virus infected and i was told to switch to Firefox. Firefox is faster and better than all browser i have used.
Java Drive-by Attacks have been here since late 2008, though, they've been getting worryingly more wide-scale, until lately most browsers were still vuln to such exploits, as far as i know, only Chrome currently is safe from such attacks, but its funny to saying that now IE is getting hammered, IE, has been, for years, since IE6 constantly under attack and had numerous amount of exploits to it, i have to say on its defense though, microsoft has been doing a hard job plugging these and IE9 does look promising although ripoff of Chrome/Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are the secured browsers that we can use. IE is not longer secured compared to its counterparts.
I rarely use IE and I saw a thread the other day, the OP said not to use IE 9 and I'm not interested to try it either.
As i said before, and will continue saying. Uninstall ie, remove it from your system, get firefox. Is way better than IE.
Hardly use IE anymore and many people are changing browsers, so then IE puts less effort in security and stuff thus more breeches.