{"id":3172,"date":"2012-09-02T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/wordpress\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2024-12-14T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T05:41:52","slug":"382-disable-java-presentation-apps-bad-samsung-galaxy-nexus-mobile-podcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/382-disable-java-presentation-apps-bad-samsung-galaxy-nexus-mobile-podcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"#382 How to Disable Java, Presentation Apps are Bad, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Mobile Podcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Java 7 exploit for Mac, Linux and Windows – three tutorials on how to disable Java in your browsers: How to Disable Java in Chrome<\/a>, How to Disable Java in Safari<\/a>, How to Disable Java in Firefox<\/a>. Why I hate ALL presentation applications including Keynote. Donald Burr brings us a review of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. I do a review of the new version 4 of my favorite Application annihilation software AppDelete from reggieashworth.com<\/a>. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Guy Serle of the mymac.com podcast<\/a> joins us to talk through how he gave up carrying a MacBook Pro to using just an iPad and an iPhone as a mobile podcasting rig.<\/p>\n

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\nHi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday September 2, 2012 and this is show number 382. <\/p>\n

Security Lite<\/h3>\n

We don’t have Bart on this week to do a security lite but there certainly was BIG news in the security front this week, and I think I can actually do it justice on my own. There was a Zero-Day exploit on Java version 7 for Windows, the Mac, and even Linux, giving bad guys complete control of your computer. As you’ll recall, a zero-day exploit means that the day you find out about it, you’re already vulnerable. Oracle was notified about the problem in Java 7 months ago but didn’t release a patch, instead preferring to keep to their nice quarterly update schedule. Very short sighted on their part, haven’t they learned anything from Apple on this???<\/p>\n

I wanted to talk about this for a couple of reasons. The first is that it irritates the living daylights out of me that people use this as an opportunity for link bait – specifically by pointing out that MACS have this vulnerability. Even CNET is guilty of this. They posted an article entitled “new java 7 exploit can potentially affect macs”. On top of being inflammatory link bait, it’s misleading because people on Linux or Windows could believe that they don’t have the problem. It’s irresponsible and irritating.<\/p>\n

The good news is that Oracle updated Java 7 on Friday. The bad news is that according to an article in Ars Technica<\/a>, the newly released patch has a completely DIFFERENT critical bug in it that gives bad guys complete control of your computer if you go to a site with malicious code.<\/p>\n

T\"podfeet.comhe good news is that back when the last Java problem happened, Bart walked us through how to simply disable Java in our browsers. After the conversation, I wrote three tutorials using ScreenSteps that walk you through step by step how to do it in Chrome (which is unintuitive and complicated) and in Safari and Firefox which are both rather obvious and easy. Here’s a fun fact – when the Java vulnerability hit the airwaves earlier this week, traffic to podfeet.com went up by a factor of THIRTY! I just happened to check my site stats that day and saw it had gone out of control. Super fun stuff! In fact, if you did a search for how to disable java in chrome, my site was the number one hit in Google! And yes, I made sure it wasn’t because Google knew it was me, I did it with private browsing AND I had Bart test it from his side of the globe.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you hadn’t yet shut off Java, go one of the links in the shownotes to disable it. You can always enable it if you HAVE to have it, but so few sites use it these days it’s better to keep it off until you need it. Remember what Bart says, “hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”<\/p>\n