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If you use Firefox there is an add-in called NoScript that stops java from running any scripts without your explicit permission. You can give one time permission for a site or permanently allow them to run. You can also be selective and only allow some scripts to run. That means you can allow the video but disallow the advert scripts. You can allow scripts in your main browser pref/options and then NoScript will block any that you have not told it to allow. There is a bit of a learning curve but nothing the average used can't figure out with a bit of trial and error.

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If you use Firefox there is an add-in called NoScript that stops java from running any scripts without your explicit permission. You can give one time permission for a site or permanently allow them to run. You can also be selective and only allow some scripts to run. That means you can allow the video but disallow the advert scripts. You can allow scripts in your main browser pref/options and then NoScript will block any that you have not told it to allow. There is a bit of a learning curve but nothing the average used can't figure out with a bit of trial and error.

 

I thought the consensus was that Java is a bit of a security disaster and it is best to disable it completely.

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The eternal tradeoff between security and usability. If you disable it completely, depending on what you need for your PC to do, you may find that you can't get by. No harm in trying to work that way though and see if you can manage without it or not. You can always re-enable it.

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If I remember correctly, neither Hotmail and Gmail will work without Java. I have to say that since I dumped the free AVG antivirus I have not gotten infected. This is one of the reasons we use decent antivirus programs.

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If I remember correctly, neither Hotmail and Gmail will work without Java. I have to say that since I dumped the free AVG antivirus I have not gotten infected. This is one of the reasons we use decent antivirus programs.

I disabled Java. Better safe than sorry. Hotmail and Gmail are working fine and I don't seem to have any other problems.

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The war I understood Homeland security's warning is that it is Java 7 that has the security hole, not the others. I uninstalled 7 but still have Java 6..

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If you use Firefox there is an add-in called NoScript that stops java from running any scripts without your explicit permission. You can give one time permission for a site or permanently allow them to run. You can also be selective and only allow some scripts to run. That means you can allow the video but disallow the advert scripts. You can allow scripts in your main browser pref/options and then NoScript will block any that you have not told it to allow. There is a bit of a learning curve but nothing the average used can't figure out with a bit of trial and error.

 

Java and javascript are two different things and unrelated other than the one has part of its name as the other.

 

If you use noscript (which is an addin for Firefox) you disable javascript and frankly 99% of the functionality of most websites so you spend all your time allowing page exceptions for the session and ultimately you quit using it, being that it is overkill.

 

Java (vs. javascript) is an OS dependent mini OS if you will that allows applications to run in a browser (and on cell phones) whether the browser is on Windows, mac, Linux, etc. There are not that many java dependent sites and you can disable the java in Firefox in the add-in manager (it's a plug in) and then if you encounter that rare site that uses java you can always enable it.

 

The threats are java applets buried in web pages that run and do bad things if you run Java 7 Release 10 (think porn sites), but disabling java will probably not be noticed 99% of the time while disabling javascript (using noscript)will be noticed 100% of the time.

 

Add adblock plus to your browser which disables a lot of bandwidth using crap that you don't want to see anyway.

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I disabled Java. Better safe than sorry. Hotmail and Gmail are working fine and I don't seem to have any other problems.

You obviously heard what was said at the Expats Club.

I took a look at my 2 machines,my Vista one I had to disable Java, and I don't see any problems so far. I have Adblock running already.

My Windows 7 machine, Java was already disabled, I think Firefox did it automatically or prompted me to before.

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You obviously heard what was said at the Expats Club.

I took a look at my 2 machines,my Vista one I had to disable Java, and I don't see any problems so far. I have Adblock running already.

My Windows 7 machine, Java was already disabled, I think Firefox did it automatically or prompted me to before.

Actually, I started this thread after reading about the problems with Java on the Sydney Morning Herald, before it was mentioned at the Expat meeting yesterday. Brian Maxey gave an excellent presentation for the less technically minded phone and Internet users yesterday. He is a gifted speaker. Firefox automatically disabled Java on their older browser version, because it was unsafe. On their latest version they reintroduced Java.

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Java and javascript are two different things and unrelated other than the one has part of its name as the other.

 

If you use noscript (which is an addin for Firefox) you disable javascript and frankly 99% of the functionality of most websites so you spend all your time allowing page exceptions for the session and ultimately you quit using it, being that it is overkill.

 

Java (vs. javascript) is an OS dependent mini OS if you will that allows applications to run in a browser (and on cell phones) whether the browser is on Windows, mac, Linux, etc. There are not that many java dependent sites and you can disable the java in Firefox in the add-in manager (it's a plug in) and then if you encounter that rare site that uses java you can always enable it.

 

The threats are java applets buried in web pages that run and do bad things if you run Java 7 Release 10 (think porn sites), but disabling java will probably not be noticed 99% of the time while disabling javascript (using noscript)will be noticed 100% of the time.

 

Add adblock plus to your browser which disables a lot of bandwidth using crap that you don't want to see anyway.

Thanks for that. You know what you are talking about. Cheers

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Oracle has posted the patch two days early and are calling it a new version. IIRC, 7.0.11. You can download it directly from their web site.

According to this article some of Java's problems have not been resolved as yet.

 

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/critical-fix-for-java-security-flaw-released-20130114-2cocw.html

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