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No, it does not. This is non-news. Agreed, nobody uses that anymore, nobody should.

freehunter 14y ago
All the people commenting on this saying Java is never used by anybody and no one should be having it installed are way off, seriously. There's a reason Java is #2 on the TIOBE language list. Just because you never see it doesn't mean it's not being used. You might not know this, but Gmail is Java powered on the backend. Many banking sites use Java for a backend. In the corporate world, Java rules and is required to be installed on their machines.
- foohbarbaz 14y ago
  This has nothing to do with Java. It's a browser plugin issue. Disable the plugin and forget.
  - freehunter 14y ago
    You must have missed my last sentence. People work at the companies who are running Java on the server. People work at the companies who are developing Java on the desktop. A lot of people. A significant enough number of people that the language makes #2 on the TIOBE list. Debates about the TIOBE relevancy aside, it's at least somewhat of an indicator. People are working for companies that use Java, and these employees cannot disable Java in their browser because it's required for their job. I happen to work at one of these shops, and I can confirm to you 12,000 people in the US from just my company alone who must have Java in their browser and running constantly. We're not alone in this regard. We're all vulnerable, and the suggestion to disable the plugin doesn't help much.
  - mrgoldenbrown 14y ago
    OK. I took your advice. Except I couldn't forget because now my VPN client, gotomeeting, and various internal enterprisey things all stopped working :)
diminoten 14y ago
Nobody tech-savvy sure, but I bet I could get your proverbial mother with this exploit.
- watty 14y ago
  I'm tech savvy and I access Java applets daily. GoToMeeting, VPN for several customer sites, and some commercial software we sell use it.
skymt 14y ago
Just because the Java plugin is rarely used doesn't mean it isn't installed. Most PCs I see have Java installed, whether bundled by the OEM or some third-party piece of software, and Java always installs its plugin. Stat Owl reports that the Java plugin is installed on 68% of browsers[0] based on data from 28 million monthly uniques[1]. 0: http://www.statowl.com/java.php http://www.statowl.com/java.php 1: http://www.statowl.com/about_our_data.php http://www.statowl.com/about_our_data.php

All the people commenting on this saying Java is never used by anybody and no one should be having it installed are way off, seriously. There's a reason Java is #2 on the TIOBE language list. Just because you never see it doesn't mean it's not being used. You might not know this, but Gmail is Java powered on the backend. Many banking sites use Java for a backend. In the corporate world, Java rules and is required to be installed on their machines.

foohbarbaz 14y ago
This has nothing to do with Java. It's a browser plugin issue. Disable the plugin and forget.
- freehunter 14y ago
  You must have missed my last sentence. People work at the companies who are running Java on the server. People work at the companies who are developing Java on the desktop. A lot of people. A significant enough number of people that the language makes #2 on the TIOBE list. Debates about the TIOBE relevancy aside, it's at least somewhat of an indicator. People are working for companies that use Java, and these employees cannot disable Java in their browser because it's required for their job. I happen to work at one of these shops, and I can confirm to you 12,000 people in the US from just my company alone who must have Java in their browser and running constantly. We're not alone in this regard. We're all vulnerable, and the suggestion to disable the plugin doesn't help much.
- mrgoldenbrown 14y ago
  OK. I took your advice. Except I couldn't forget because now my VPN client, gotomeeting, and various internal enterprisey things all stopped working :)

diminoten 14y ago

Nobody tech-savvy sure, but I bet I could get your proverbial mother with this exploit.

watty 14y ago
I'm tech savvy and I access Java applets daily. GoToMeeting, VPN for several customer sites, and some commercial software we sell use it.

skymt 14y ago

Just because the Java plugin is rarely used doesn't mean it isn't installed. Most PCs I see have Java installed, whether bundled by the OEM or some third-party piece of software, and Java always installs its plugin. Stat Owl reports that the Java plugin is installed on 68% of browsers[0] based on data from 28 million monthly uniques[1]. 0: http://www.statowl.com/java.php http://www.statowl.com/java.php 1: http://www.statowl.com/about_our_data.php http://www.statowl.com/about_our_data.php