Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Security advice for web users last week from the US Department of Homeland Security recommended that Java should be disabled, lest a growing number of exploits leave your computer open to hacking.

Add or Remove Programs entry for Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03. Java SE consists of a virtual machine, which must be used to run Java programs, together with a set of libraries (or ...

Last month, I wrote about how Microsoft told its users to update Java or kill it. This week, a new 0-day vulnerability in Sun’s software is pushing security companies to do the same, with one ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2. Java SE consists of a virtual machine, which must be used to run Java programs, together with a set of libraries (or "packages") ...

Do you have Java installed on your Mac? Well, you might want to rethink that decision. Recently, Oracle has begun shipping Ask.com adware alongside the Java installer on OS X. While Windows users have ...