The news is all over the internet that Apple has apparently used their anti-marware function in OS X to disable Java again. You might recall that they have done this before when there was a zero day exploit in the popular plug in. I’m guessing Apple knows something that the rest of us don’t because it’s safe to assume that wouldn’t do this for giggles.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I think it’s time to take the hint. Java is insecure. I’ve ditched it from all my Macs and the only place where I do run it is in my Parallels virtual machines which make up XP, Vista, and Windows 7 flavours. That way if anything gets infected, it’s only going to be on a virtual machine that can be restored to a virgin state and has no data to grab by evil doers.
Take the hint and ditch it, you’ll be better off.
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Java Disabled On Macs….. Again
The news is all over the internet that Apple has apparently used their anti-marware function in OS X to disable Java again. You might recall that they have done this before when there was a zero day exploit in the popular plug in. I’m guessing Apple knows something that the rest of us don’t because it’s safe to assume that wouldn’t do this for giggles.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I think it’s time to take the hint. Java is insecure. I’ve ditched it from all my Macs and the only place where I do run it is in my Parallels virtual machines which make up XP, Vista, and Windows 7 flavours. That way if anything gets infected, it’s only going to be on a virtual machine that can be restored to a virgin state and has no data to grab by evil doers.
Take the hint and ditch it, you’ll be better off.
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