Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Naughty Java Date: 8 Mar 2015 14:59:34 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <54fb9aa6$0$46550$c3e8da3$9b4ff22a@news.astraweb.com> <5ZCdnWzRW4V30WHJnZ2dnUU7-aWdnZ2d@giganews.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net wtSMrpjfkTS3sWgMK4gOagxIR+5MC+Hi45UKM409QxHIii2qyX Cancel-Lock: sha1:nOPl7yIglVzs8tJFY5mwsxfU5nY= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:28038 On 2015-03-08, JoeyDee wrote: > On 2015-03-08 13:21:46 +0000, Alan Browne said: > >> On 2015.03.07 19:41 , Warren Oates wrote: >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/06/oracle_java_ask_toolbar/ >>> >>> My wife kept getting the Ask toolbar installed somehow. It's the >>> nastiest piece of shit in the world. >> >> I just installed it - was not asked for the ask toolbar and it wasn't >> installed. Maybe Adobe fixed that in the past day. > > I just installed it and was very clearly asked if I wanted the ASK > toolbar and homepage, both boxes that I unticked before proceeding. > > And now in the Java control panel Advanced tab it does ask if I want to > suppress future crapware, whereas it didn't before this update. I just installed Java (so I can run jdiskreport (gratuitous plug - it's a great piece of s/ware, and no, I didn't write it)) and no toolbar, no request, no nothing. Just the Java JRE. -- Today is Boomtime, the 67th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.