Slow downs and Crashes--Remove IE8

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/908/1051908/security-outfit-calls-roll-ie
If you recently have upgraded to Internet Explorer (Exploder?) 8 you might want to roll it back or just remove it and go with Firefox.  The Kaspersky Labs has been suggesting this to their customers.

Joe:
First I put Pandora back on dashboard. Then I opened up Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, Terminal and typed in top.
the results are shown below.
Processes: 59 total, 4 running, 1 stuck, 54 sleeping... 232 threads 08:18:06
Load Avg: 1.97, 1.45, 0.94 CPU usage: 89.69% user, 4.12% sys, 6.19% idle
SharedLibs: num = 2, resident = 35M code, 0 data, 3348K linkedit.
MemRegions: num = 6658, resident = 276M + 14M private, 74M shared.
PhysMem: 87M wired, 279M active, 139M inactive, 505M used, 6532K free.
VM: 3744M + 126M 41696(100) pageins, 22018(0) pageouts
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
1535 ReportCras 31.2% 0:04.49 3 46 392 24M+ 3328K 26M+ 198M+
1534 Image Capt 0.0% 0:02.59 2 88 53 1788K 3364K 4348K 70M
1533 iPhoto 0.0% 0:05.15 4 104 612 10M 11M 23M 153M
1531 top 7.2% 0:08.13 1 21 28 476K 212K 1080K 18M
1529 usbmuxd 0.0% 0:00.02 2 21 32 204K 216K 724K 19M
1528 iTunes 0.1% 0:10.55 6 249 325 15M 11M 32M 158M
1523 mdworker 0.0% 0:00.73 3 50 33 648K 2896K 2236K 35M
1491 DashboardC 33.8% 2:52.42 8 229 356 93M 11M 101M 222M
1490 DashboardC 0.0% 0:03.07 4 120 160 8484K 5344K 13M 91M
1479 bash 0.0% 0:00.05 1 14 19 216K 196K 952K 18M
1478 login 0.0% 0:00.07 1 17 49 160K 228K 884K 19M
1477 Terminal 14.6% 0:13.08 3 101- 128 1820K 6004K 5836K 111M
1473 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.11 1 37 30 428K 4820K 1600K 34M
1471 Safari 0.0% 2:29.94 8 234 500 78M 12M 90M 236M
1390 SyncServer 0.0% 0:02.90 2 50 57 1460K 2840K 2724K 32M
1381 mdworker 0.0% 0:03.01 4 73 67 1036K 4100K 2988K 3
There were times when Terminal showed 100% CPU usage. Also during the test I crashed iPhoto as I tried to quit the program.
If I understand what I am looking at in Terminal I am overwhelming my CPU. Is that correct?
If so, I see the only fix is to open less programs at one time or buy a newer, bigger, faster MacBook. Is that analysis correct?
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