Windows 7: New vulnerabilities found in latest Java update

A Guy · 01 Sep 2012

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Only hours after Oracle released its latest Java 7 update to address active exploits, security researchers found yet another vulnerability that can be exploited to run arbitrary code on systems that have the runtime installed.

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A Guy

M1GU31 · 01 Sep 2012

Great

eh java is pointless now,they always get exploited to easy,going to uninstall it. Don't really see sites that use it anyways.

A Guy · 01 Sep 2012

I think unless you regularly use an application that requires it, uninstalling it is the recommended thing these days. It is getting ridiculous that they had to make an out of schedule update since the exoploit was so bad,. Now 1 day later, new vulnerabilities in that update are identified. If I didn't need it for Go To, I would uninstall it myself. A Guy

PwnFrnzy · 02 Sep 2012

If it wasn't for Minecraft, Java would never have found it's way into my system to begin with, I still wish there was a no-Java version of Minecraft for that reason.

xxxdannyxxx · 02 Sep 2012

What a joke this is, If I didn't need it, it would be long gone.

Danny

ashleyg · 02 Sep 2012

Sheesh! With this and all the other exploits being advised recently, think I'll uninstall the Internet!

Kari · 02 Sep 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by xxxdannyxxx

What a joke this is, If I didn't need it, it would be long gone.

Danny

Same here. My bank back in my native Finland uses Java for online banking; I am in Germany so I can not go personally to bank whenever I want to, my only possibility is to use their online banking which requires Java. It sucks!

lehnerus2000 · 03 Sep 2012

Tell me it isn't true!

I only run Java in a Windows VM.
Hopefully that gives me a little bit of protection.

Borg 386 · 06 Sep 2012

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat, I can't ditch it because the schools site requires it to run (along with OpenOffice) so I'm stuck with it.

I do really like the Add On someone (I forget who) suggested to me a while back, QuickJava for FF. I can easily keep it disabled unless I absolutely need it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...va/?src=search

**x BlueRobot** · 06 Sep 2012

After building a knowledge of C++ and C# (two languages I haven't learnt with or programmed with for awhile), I went onto looking at Java, but after even more exploits being found within the JRE is Java even worth learning?

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