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1322353 2013-01-12 09:38:00 The questions should be - why is it that its only being brought up now, and people are being warned. Most of the security companies as well as Oracle have known about since it was discovered last year August 22nd ?

Why haven't Oracle patched it yet ?

Yea, wondered why it was reported now. Figured a reporter had a few column cm's to fill in a hurry so did an Internet copy/paste!
linw (53)
1322354 2013-01-12 09:49:00 I need it operate banking site . Uninstalled it then had to reinstall to progress on ANZ site ??
Vote with your wallet and change to a bank that doesn't use insecure technology.
fred_fish (15241)
1322355 2013-01-12 18:06:00 Firefox disables Java plugins

www.warp2search.net
zqwerty (97)
1322356 2013-01-12 19:24:00 Vote with your wallet and change to a bank that doesn't use insecure technology.

Not as simple as that ... they need me !
cowboy stu (7021)
1322357 2013-01-13 01:12:00 Some good coverage of the problem and instructions on ZNet yesterday -

www.zdnet.com
advena (13666)
1322358 2013-01-13 05:11:00 Disable Java in all your browsers, if it's not already :)

Firefox 17 onwards has click-to-play for plugins, but I'm not sure if it means you're safe from such vulnerabilities.

Java is not Javascript. No need to disable it, in fact you have to go into Control Panel to disable Java
SanChippy (16951)
1322359 2013-01-13 19:38:00 Java is not Javascript. No need to disable it, in fact you have to go into Control Panel to disable Java
Please tell me where I said javascript in my reply. I said disable Java, and it can be done in the browser - no need to disable it for the whole system since some apps may need it.

Click on the Firefox menu (top-left), go to Add-Ons, click Plugins and find the Java(TM) Platform SE etc plugin - click Disable. Done.
autechre (266)
1322360 2013-01-13 21:15:00 Looks like Mozilla has enabled "click-to-play" for the last few iterations of the java plugin:
blog.mozilla.org
autechre (266)
1322361 2013-01-13 22:09:00 And it looks like FF disables it even if its installed. Well it did here, so I uninstalled it. Since under addons / plugins it said the version is vulnerable. If its 7 update 10 Speedy Gonzales (78)
1322362 2013-01-13 22:11:00 So, Java is not only a piece of lagware it's also now full of holes? Lovely. Agent_24 (57)
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