" Summary: Oracle's Java plug-in for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update, Java actively tries to install unwanted software. Here's what it does, and why it has to stop. "
A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates | ZDNet
and on a related note .........
http://www.worldwidedx.com/forum-help-info/149021-moving-chat-box.html
BM, I recently allowed a Java update, and it turned off my AVG virus software automatic update feature. I was lucky that AVG checks the update status and after a while, it will present a critical warning.
I did a restore to a date and time before the Java update, and that fixed my problem. However, this also re-presented the Java update icon on my task bar, and this time I just deleted it.
As a note to users of Microsoft defrag, I recently found out that even though I had MS defrag auto-set to run once a week, and sometimes I even ran it manually, it appeared to run, but it was not really working and changed nothing on my hard disk.
I checked further and found it was not really doing its job, and found that some software installs and updates mess with switch settings on our computers.
Booty when I first started using Super Anti Spyware at your recommendation, I asked you a question, "...if you used a feature that SAS reported after I scanned my disk the first time." You said you did not use the feature and I didn't either. If you look at your report of that feature, you will probably see some of the same things have been shut off. Well, one of the SAS recommendations was to allow it to, among other things, turn my defrag back on, do you remember?
Sometimes I suspect that even Windows or Microsoft updates tend to do similar things to our computers, so it is not always some cheap add-on software. If one is willing to check, you will find the Internet is full of similar ideas and issues. Sometimes even the good guys mess up.
