David E. Ross wrote:
On 1/18/13 9:51 AM, Rickles wrote:
I've seen the notices and recommendations about the various Java
security holes. I understand the concerns. But there's one site my
wife visits regularly which requires Java, and now won't work on either
our XP-SP3 tower mainframe or a Win7 laptop, both with SM 2.15, because
SM has taken it upon itself to block every Java version back thru v6
Update 38. The only option available to the user is to disable it in
Add-On Mgr, which is useless since SM has already locked it out.
This is the only site she wants to use which uses Java, so I'd
appreciate any recommendations as to how to turn SOME version of Java
back on in SM.
While I could still have Web pages use Java by selecting the Lego
graphic with the "Click here to activate plugin." caption, there was no
way to use the Java test page at
<http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp> to verify a correct
installation of Java.
I located the file blocklist.xml in my profile. I opened it in an ASCII
editor (WordPad) and commented out six consecutive
<pluginItem></pluginItem> blocks that referenced Java. I then changed
the properties of blocklist.xml to be read-only.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND this to others because of the risks, not only from
possible Java vulnerabilities but also because it disables future blocks
of other malware. Thus, I will undo this when a newer version of Java
becomes available. In the meantime, however, I now have Java fully
enabled for the very few Web pages with Java that I visit.
Probably only valid for the Windows version.
I just renamed the blocklist.xml, having seen the java statements in
there but I have still no java. My version is 2.15 linux.
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