What he ment was probably this :
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fweb%2Fbundesamt-warnt-vor-internet-explorer-a-856385.html&act=url
Which is advise published byt a German Federal organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Information_Security).
So its not illegal, but the goverment warns the public.