Today's 'Old News'...

Hackers have been hacking everything you've got for years.

That's why your need a good security program.

Or two or three...there's safety in numbers.

Added Note:

Tom comments below about multiple security programs possibly conflicting with one another, and I'd like to also comment about that. That was true a few years ago, before it became obvious that some programs do a better job of some tasks than others do, and before the malware problem ballooned all out of proportion to reality. The fact or rumor that more than one security program on your computer can cause conflicts between them may or may not be true, but there's a couple of things to consider. As mentioned, one may do a better job than another at finding certain kinds of malware. For another, the people who make these programs may not want you to discover that their own doesn't do as good a job for you as their competition's version does. Let me explain....

I have three security programs on here, and the same three on my other PC, and each is better at one thing than the others. I have Avast Internet Security not because they tell us that they are very proud of all the many millions of users world-wide who use it, but rather because it has a feature called a Boot Scan, with which it can scan your computer during a reboot, while its active memory is unloaded, and it has access to all your system files, so that it can find anything anywhere on the system which isn't supposed to be there.  This takes a while, but it does work. It works on the same principle as Igor's program "MoveOnBoot" from Emco Software in Iceland. Igor's program, which is probably where Avast got the idea, is designed to remove, or rename or move files or folders which normally would have their access blocked even to an Admin, and as we know these days, that can include malware now. Igor's free program can work on those kinds of files and folders because it does its thing during a reboot, when nothing is yet loaded into active memory, and everything is accessible to it. So it also is very handy for removing malware - but first, or course you have to find it.

For finding it, I depend on Malwarebytes Pro, because it is very good at that, and it also has some added free tools for finding and removing rootkits and other hidden malware, using its Anti-rootkit or its Chameleon tools which hunt for modern hidden malware that regular anti-virus programs tend to miss.

The third program I have is SuperAntiSpyware, and while it doesn't set the world on fire, it is very good at finding Adware Cookies, and removing them.

If you've got adware cookies tracking your surfing habits, this can find them.

Finally, I usually use the Firefox browser, even though its frequent updates are becoming a goddamned nuisance, because it doesn't need that many constant revisions. I use it because it has a large and useful set of add-ons, and one of those in particular, Better Privacy, can find and remove those hidden supercookies, formally known as Local System Objects or LSOs, which get into your system, and unlike regular cookies, they have no expiry date, and also unlike regular cookies, they can contain executive programming which can perform alterations to your existing files. They also 'phone home' regularly with your personal information for their organization's use, without your knowledge or consent. And if you don't have 'Better Privacy' you won't even know that you have these things doing their nasty little things inside your files. I don't know of any other program like Better Privacy which can find and remove these LSOs.

And you do want to find and remove them. That's why I use Firefox - to keep that supercookie spyware in check.

The rest of the time, and when I get annoyed at Firefox for its too-frequent updates and 'make-work projects' I usually use Opera or Chrome, and I try to avoid Internet Explorer, because it seems to like to play "20 questions" more than I do. When I'm doing something, I just want to get on with it, not stop to answer a lot of stupid questions that usually don't need to be asked, unless you have an I.Q. that's on a par with an unwashed turnip, and in that case, you probably ought to be using an etch-a-sketch, not a computer. 

That's what I find most annoying about Microsoft and their programs - they seem to automatically assume that everyone else out here in cyberspace is some kind of lame-brain who needs to take off their shoes and socks before trying to count to twenty.

Jumping to conclusions like that seems to be their principal form of exercise, and they really need to smarten up themselves. The Unix-derived PC-BSD and FreeBSD programs now available can kick the shit out of Windows, and both are free downloads for anyone who wants an operating system for their computer.

I've compared these BSD systems to Windows 8, and I can't find anything which I can't do just as easily and sometimes even faster on my PC-BSD 10.0, which is a 64-bit system with a GUI that looks like a cross between Windows and a Mac.

If Windows for some reason mysteriously disappeared overnight, it wouldn't have any effect on my ability to use the computer and do everything I do now.

And that's an option I really enjoy having. It's nice to know there's life after Microsoft, and without mortgaging the old homestead to buy an Apple PC.