New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites

Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by tjarratt on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @06:37PM (#1840757)

Since no one else is going to say it...

Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a bad idea to remove Java from OS X. I for one can go without any applets and even minecraft on my macbook pro.

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by SpikeGronim on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @07:01PM (#1840829)

First, Apple isn't removing Java from OS X. They will stop shipping their customized version of Java in several years.

Second, every popular piece of software has vulnerabilities. So if this warrants the removal of Java, you should remove Safari and the BSD kernel from OS X as well.

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by X-Istence on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @08:41PM (#1841143)

There is no BSD kernel in OS X. The entire OS is Darwin running an XNU kernel that has a BSD layer within it. There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS.

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by SpikeGronim on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @09:27PM (#1841265)

"There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS"

Yup, that's the joke I was making... grandparent comment would have us remove all our software...

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by X-Istence on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @08:44PM (#1841147)

There is an awful lot of enterprise software that is built on Java, and security vulnerabilities are going to happen, be it in Java or in Safari or any other piece of software you happen to use.

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by Dbug on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @11:03PM (#1841515)

I'd like to see a list of OS X apps using Java. Some may be using Java apps without knowing it. Some P2P apps come to mind.

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Re:New Java trojan attacks Mac OS X via social networking sites by thought_alarm on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @09:13PM (#1841230)

If by "remove" you mean "not install as a default component of the OS" then yes.

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