{"id":949,"date":"2013-04-23T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:37:31","slug":"java-update-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/java-update-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Java update April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>If you haven&#8217;t installed Oracle&#8217;s most recent Java patch, you should do so now!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Nefarious folks are hacking those that have not patched their systems.<br \/>\nYou can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/java.com\/en\/download\/manual.jsp\">latest Java here<\/a> for Mac OSX, Windows or Linux.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I know many folks have taken to removing or disabling Java all together over security concerns. While that may be a solution to some, it is not for all of us. Especially those of us in IT that rely on application\/tools that require Java.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There are also a whole lot of interactive and multimedia Internet applications that also require Java.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So IF you have Java installed on your PC \u2013 be it Mac, Linux or Window, PLEASE update your system.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One thing I\u2019d like to warn you about while doing this update.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WHILE GOING THROUGH THE INSTALL PROCESS &#8211; DO NOT INSTALL ANY TOOLBARS (LIKE \u2018ASK TOOLBAR\u2019 ETC.) OR ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE (FREE VIRUS SCANS, BROWSERS ETC.)!!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This whole <em>SCAM<\/em> of installing crapware, and worse, while simply trying to update plug-ins is getting WAY out of hand. I wish there were some way to stop it but it seems impossible. Seems virtually every plugin-addon tries to install more stuff than you need and should want. Very frustrating.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But if you\u2019re diligent and careful you can keep yourself from being essentially tricked into installing crapware.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So be safe out there folks.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t installed Oracle&#8217;s most recent Java patch, you should do so now! Nefarious folks are hacking those that have not patched their systems. You can find the latest Java here for Mac OSX, Windows or Linux. I know many folks have taken to removing or disabling Java all together over security concerns. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/java-update-april-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Java update April 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,10,21,13,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}