“So you’ve heard the Ask toolbar is now bundled with Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac?” Brunerd blogs.
“Fortunately there’s a simple workaround!” Brunerd writes. “Let’s take control of our Macs and do a little spelunking into this new installer app.”
Brunerd writes, “A script I just made to do the same thing plus some other nice things like: name the package and un-quarantine it.”
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Oracle extends its adware bundling to include Java for Macs – March 6, 2015
For what f******purpose should anyone install damn Java ?
Just a stab in the dark here, but I’m going to guess
running applications written with Java.
One word: MINECRAFT.
I’m pretty sure Java 7 is still recommended for Minecraft.
I use a technical app everyday that has a GUI written in Java (with the kernel written in assembler) to have a common cross-platform look and feel. They’re rewriting the app, but it’s going to take another development cycle to become Java-free. The app handles large scale research level symbolic computations that I do.
Hmmm…you might be running Junos Pulse (which is now called Pulse Secure) so that you can access VPNs running on Juniper hardware.
The dire problem for many Mac users isn’t exactly Java, it’s the shite storm Java plugin Oracle foists on the world. It has NO reliable sandboxing, this is the core of its ruination under Oracle’s rule. That allows the bloody thing, with the right bastardized code, to totally BOT your Mac.
As for Java applications NOT running over the Internet, they’re not the problem.
I haven’t bothered with the most dangerous software anyone can run on the Internet, the Oracle Java plugin, for a couple years now. I got sick of the constant security hell and ditched it. Meanwhile, however, I have Mac friends in Denmark who are forced to use it because their banks run their website service over Java, and the banks aren’t getting the LOUD CLUE that no sane business now runs Java software over the Internet. It’s that same olde theme of tech illiteracy and intransigence. It’s a business disease isn’t going anywhere soon, sad to say. Just today I read about a large hotel chain that got its network and customer accounts PWNed by hackers due to the Windows XP Embedded POS (point of sale) device hacking that is just now celebrating its TWO year birthday. They Just-Don’t-Get-It.
And yes ScamStung: The stupid LoopPay technology you bought is STILL susceptible to the Windows XP Embedded POS hacker attack. DUH on you, suckers.
I have to, because of adobe illustrator
Cisco ASDM for me. Although most of the time I’ll log into my ASAs using the CLI the ASDM is just so much easier for visualising the security policy.
Saying that, I really wish Cisco would go the Web 2.0 route like other firewall vendors such as Palo Alto. No Java required to admin PAN-OS, just a web browser.
Take a look at this web page from Oracle on a way to not have the Ask.com junk show up:
https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/disable_offers.xml
Thanks for mentioning this. I wonder how many people actually try to research things instead of going straight into bitch and moan mode.
I haven’t see anything about Ask.com in the Java 8 update 40 installers. I tried it on both of my Macs. Nothing. I downloaded the software from java.com.