deep purple,
Not to argue the point, but as some one retired, I spend almost all day on-line and no, I don’t visit only a few sites. I also run pretty much the same protection as you and have no problems. You are ofcourse free to choose what ever browser and operating system you choose. There are however still some of us who enjoy our Windows Operating System.
I don’t use IE per say. I use GreenBrowser but it’s base on the IE platform just has a lot of extra bells and whistles.