Newsletter Archives

• Disabling Java in Internet Explorer

  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 19:43 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  It’s no easy task.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security Disable Java, Internet Explorer, Java

• Battle lines drawn in the War against Java

  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 23:25 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  And it’s about time…

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Java

• Microsoft hits Java where it hurts

  Posted on July 30, 2012 at 22:50 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Really, it’s time to get rid of JRE/JVM. No excuses.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Java, JRE/JVM

• Tim Cook wins where Steve Jobs failed

  Posted on April 30, 2012 at 18:25 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  He got Larry Ellison to start cooking — if not eating — his own dogfood.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Apple, Java, Oracle

• It’s time to run Java out of town

  Posted on April 10, 2012 at 22:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The number-one vector for infections on PCs has just become the number-one vector for infections on Macs.

  Sorry to all of you Java developers, but you’re working with a lame horse. Time to get your act together and move on. Java’s fatally flawed, and Oracle isn’t doing anything to shore it up.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security Java

• More Java woes

  Posted on December 1, 2011 at 22:06 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Brian Krebs reports that a painful Java security hole has just been made available to a whole lot of people.

  Follow his advice and check to make sure you have either Java 6 Update 29, or Java 7 Update 1.

  Windows Patches/Security Java

• Conficker lurking in updates?

  Posted on April 15, 2009 at 21:36 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  JB writes:

  Dear Woody,

  
  Is it good to take Adobe Flash player updates? And is AVG 8.5 Free better than AVG 8.0 Free? How do we know these updates aren’t polluted with conficker?

  Yep, it’s always best to install Flash Player updates, Adobe Reader updates, Java updates, and the like, when they’re offered. Why? If they’re screwed up they generally won’t bring your computer to a grinding halt, and the manufacturer typically gets new updates out quickly. I won’t mention QuickTime by name.

  If you use AVG 8.0, you should upgrade to AVG 8.5.

  I can’t imagine any way Conficker could get into any of those updates.

  Other Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, AVG, Conficker, Java, QuickTime
• Newer Entries »