Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

To disable Java plugin on Internet Explorer you can use the Add-ons manager to disable Java (tm) Plug-in 2 SSV Helper and Sun Microsystems Deployment Toolkit. But this does not actually suffice.

Firefox, for example, has a blocked plugins list that includes Java plugin 7 update earlier than 44 and Java Plugin 6 updates earlier than 45. Google Chrome introduced a similar blocklist in 2011.

The Java Plug-in also provides a great benefit to developers deploying applications through Web Start, which we’ll discuss later. Installation of the Java Plug-in through an Internet Explorer ...

Support will be offered for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 browsers as well as for Firefox 3 alpha builds and the Firefox 2 browser. Platforms capable of running the plug-in include Solaris, Windows ...

Old, buggy versions of the Java plugin have long been used as an exploit vector, with Microsoft's own security report fingering Java in 84.6 to 98.5 percent of detected exploit kits (bundles of ...