Java in web browsers, disable it!

[Lloyd_mcse]

"Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in web browsers, disable it" advises US Dept of Homeland Security

For anyone who is in any doubt, the US Department of Homeland Security's CERT team has spelled it out in black and white.

Well, when I selected the text in US-CERT's Java security advisory for the purposes of taking a screen-grab, it turned out white on blue.. but you get the idea:

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[Lloyd_mcse]

Better still ... just remove it!
If you have software that requires java I would look for different software that doesn't need it.
What still uses Java anyway? No websites I can think of, the only software I can think of is Vuze, and why people would still be using that is beyond me.