Los Angles Times,

Jan 13, 2013

U.S. urges users to disable Java; Apple disables some remotely

How To Diable Java

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[Edited 1/11/13 18:07pm]

This is clearly why my cats have been acting like total spazzfaces all day.

Weird, though. I can't remember the last time the government issued this kind or warning. I know there was some really bad worms they made announcements about, but that was years ago.

This is so weird; I work for a government agency and I have not heard anything about this. Unless IT support remotely disabled java and we were never informed. Weird...

[Edited 1/11/13 18:35pm]

If you're on a mac connected to the Internet, your mac java should already be disabled.

Mine happened yesterday morning automatically.

done. but the department of homeland security issued this warning??? now that is freaky

NDRU said:

The constant updates were worse than a virus anyway

novabrkr said:

am i the only person who goes into task manager at start up and shuts down all those crappy little auto start programs like javaupdatescheduler and stuff? wish i knew how to program the start menu completely myself

In regards to Java, I think now that we have Flash, having Java is useless. I might as well delete it from my Program Files folder... I disabled it in Firefox and Opera though.

Timmy84 said:

In regards to Java, I think now that we have Flash, having Java is useless. I might as well delete it from my Program Files folder... I disabled it in Firefox and Opera though.

But what about certain online video games that relies on Java?

And can anyone tell me how this latest crisis is going to have a negative effect on computers running Linux?

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

In regards to Java, I think now that we have Flash, having Java is useless. I might as well delete it from my Program Files folder... I disabled it in Firefox and Opera though.

But what about certain online video games that relies on Java?

And can anyone tell me how this latest crisis is going to have a negative effect on computers running Linux?

I don't even go to those sites with online video games because some of them got malware in it anyways...

Timmy84 said:

TonyVanDam said:

But what about certain online video games that relies on Java?

And can anyone tell me how this latest crisis is going to have a negative effect on computers running Linux?

I don't even go to those sites with online video games because some of them got malware in it anyways...

I just uninstall Java altogether. Everything is great in Chromium/Chrome.

Timmy84 said:

In regards to Java, I think now that we have Flash, having Java is useless. I might as well delete it from my Program Files folder... I disabled it in Firefox and Opera though.

I went to disable Java in Firefox, but I apparently don't even have the plugin.

728huey said:

Timmy84 said:

In regards to Java, I think now that we have Flash, having Java is useless. I might as well delete it from my Program Files folder... I disabled it in Firefox and Opera though.

I went to disable Java in Firefox, but I apparently don't even have the plugin.

lol I went to the Java site to have it detected to see which version I had, apparently I had an old version. I think I read it could or has affected all Java 7's but I'm not sure.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

I don't even go to those sites with online video games because some of them got malware in it anyways...

I just uninstall Java altogether. Everything is great in Chromium/Chrome.

Yeah I may uninstall Java next week... I got a lot of free space on my C drive and wanna increase that space. Thankfully I got enough to bring Safari and Chrome in it for good.

Based on this information I disabled my Java. What exactly does that mean? What's gonna happen?

NDRU said:

I can't believe that with a these updates it turns out that I am still not using the most current version of java!!

I'm not using the most current version either.

I thought for sure I had it on my current pc and laptop, turns out it's not on either of them.

So what's gonna happen?

Oh, THIS is encouraging...

Security experts on Java:...two years'

If that means no updates for a while and most websites stick to using the previous versions I'm fine with it.

I have to manually install that shit by compiling it from the source and it doesn't really help that you have to modify it for different browsers. Yeah, that's Linux for you.

At this point, fuck a Java.

I don't see why we need it anymore. We've evolved and yet they still keep hanging around...

It seems the ones who rely on it need to use older versions of it until they can fix the "new ones".

For Mac users:

The vulernability is fixed, and you can download the latest version on the Oracle website:

http://www.java.com/en/do...?locale=en

Timmy84 said:

At this point, fuck a Java.

I don't see why we need it anymore. We've evolved and yet they still keep hanging around...

While using Chromium & Firefox, I notice no difference from how things were when I had the Java plugin.

The main thing is that we still need Flash Player & Image viewer.

[Edited 1/14/13 13:09pm]

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

At this point, fuck a Java.

I don't see why we need it anymore. We've evolved and yet they still keep hanging around...

While using Chromium & Firefox, I notice no difference from how things were when I had the Java plugin.

The main thing is that we still need Flash Player & Image viewer.

[Edited 1/14/13 13:09pm]

Oh no doubt...

imago said:

For Mac users:

The vulernability is fixed, and you can download the latest version on the Oracle website:

http://www.java.com/en/do...?locale=en

So for the time being, it's only PC users with Windows and/or Linux that are left without a stable Java plugin. That figured.

TonyVanDam said:

imago said:

For Mac users:

The vulernability is fixed, and you can download the latest version on the Oracle website:

http://www.java.com/en/do...?locale=en

So for the time being, it's only PC users with Windows and/or Linux that are left without a stable Java plugin. That figured.

That's not true. Just follow this link to automatically download the appropriate (stable...for the time being) version of Java for your OS and browser.

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