Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Not@home wrote:
My security program (F-Secure) issues a newsletter and in the latest
edition they recommend that we delete Java if we don't need it, because
is seems to be most vulnerable to every new exploitation. see
<http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2012/01/14/why-you-should-get-rid-of-
java-now/?ecid=2942&nlcid=2942>
Is Java necessary to effective use of Seamonkey? I see it pop up once
or twice a day, most amusingly when I use F-Secure health check to see
if my programs are up to snuff. I do have another program that scans my
pc and tells me when any program is not up to date, so I do have the
most up to date Java.
My experience is that there are very few Java applets left on the normal
web. Most developers seem to have moved on to Flash or HTML5 presentation
-- with of course the over-abundance of JavaScript we see every day.
(Java and JavaScript are two entirely different things.)
You can see a safe Java applet here. If your Java is enabled, the time
display will tick-tock away; otherwise it's a static display:
<http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5>
So the answer is: unless you know of a specific web site(s) that actually
do use Java applets, you can safely remove it - or at least disable it,
possibly via the use of the PrefBar extension (also makes it easy to
manage many other things, including en/disable JavaScript).
<http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org>
Now I'm puzzled. I went to the site you provided and got a static
display. I then went to a site I use (washingtonpost.com,
entertainment, crosswords, daily crossword, and it displayed a Java logo
while loading, and advised that if it doesn't work, you should update to
the current version of Java. If this site is using JavaScript, would it
display the Java logo?
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