Hi Bill, Java has not been safe for some time, we have recommended on WAMUG before that you disable Java in your Web Browsers. In Safari - Disable Java 1. Safari > Preferences, select Security 2. DON'T have a tick in "Enable Java"
Disabling Java in Safari is highly recommended for safe computing. You should enable it only when on a trusted site that requires it. In Firefox: 1. Open Firefox and click the Firefox button -> Add-ons (Tools -> Add-ons in Linux, OS X and Windows XP). 2. Choose the Plugins tab. 3. Select the Java plugin(s) and click disable. "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging computer users to disable or uninstall Java due to a serious flaw in Runtime Environment (JRE) 7. The DHS' Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned Thursday evening that it was being exploited in the wild and could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. CERT recommended that Java be disabled in Web browsers. It pointed users to theSolution section of the US-CERT Alert and to the Oracle Technical Note Setting the Security Level of the Java Client for information on how to do that." Cheers, Ronni On 15/01/2013, at 4:55 PM, Merv Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife has been sent the following together with several links to other > pages. I didn't send the links in case they had the potential to do harm. > Can anyone make sense of this message? > Regards > Merv > > > Java exploit - serious consequences > > This has been the sequence of events when it has come to Java exploits > but this latest one is different, very different. Someone, deep inside a > bunker in China no doubt, has discovered that Java, at its core, is > insecure and it cannot be simply patched. The whole thing has been > compromised and needs to be rewritten. It would be like finding out that > the body of your car is made of blasting caps and if you hit anything > bigger than a moth it will explode. > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
