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Originally Posted by mithrandir
If you uninstalled/disabled everything with any potential vulnerabilities you'd have a computer with all disks blank.
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While that's true and all security is a balance between risk and being overly cautious the fact is that Sun (and now Oracle) have had a terrible record in keeping Java secure, and an even worse record in responding when security holes are found in Java.
This hole was found about 6 months ago - there was an attempted fix that almost worked, but didn't, and hackers have been able to completely compromise people's computers for months.
Unless you know you need it for a particular site (in which case you can just enable for that site) everyone else should have Java disabled in their browser.