Some general advice, to decrease the chance any given browser exploit will work against you:
- Disable Java; disable or whitelist Flash; use a different PDF reader than Adobe.
- Use either Firefox with NoScript or Chrome. (Disabling JavaScript is highly effective at reducing attack surface, but on any sites you've whitelisted, Firefox is significantly less secure than Chrome due to the lack of sandbox, though they're working on it... I think that NoScript equivalents for Chrome don't work correctly, but could be wrong.)
- Don't use XP! It no longer receives security updates...
- For the same reason, on mobile, prefer devices that have up to date operating systems.
Not perfect, but that's the state of computer security these days.
- Disable Java; disable or whitelist Flash; use a different PDF reader than Adobe.
- Use either Firefox with NoScript or Chrome. (Disabling JavaScript is highly effective at reducing attack surface, but on any sites you've whitelisted, Firefox is significantly less secure than Chrome due to the lack of sandbox, though they're working on it... I think that NoScript equivalents for Chrome don't work correctly, but could be wrong.)
- Don't use XP! It no longer receives security updates...
- For the same reason, on mobile, prefer devices that have up to date operating systems.
Not perfect, but that's the state of computer security these days.