What is the Java TM Plug in SSV Helper

I just wanted to pipe in, even though I don't know if someone else is going to be coming in to look at this.  I wanted to give a little background on my experience with Java.  I worked for a company where I travelled for my job.  My company used a certain expense reporting application that was built on a certain version of Java.  While I was travelling in Europe I was dealing with a European website that allowed you to map out where you were headed, and able to get the results in English.  It was called Maps24 (in English for me) and for me to be able to use the website it called for an update to my Java.

The next time I had to do an expense report the window to log in information would not load for me.  This happened to another person that was working with me.  There were 2 other people that didn't experience this problem (4 of us from the same company.)  It took a long time to figure out the common denominator in our problems.  The other employee with the same problem had also updated Java.  It took us a while to figure out it was this update that had caused the problem.  Our IT people couldn't figure it out.  Once we narrowed it down, our company IT experts knew how to disable this version of Java and use the older version, and then we were able to do our expenses with no problem.

This is just a practical example on what Java can be good for (Internet applications for my job built on one (older) version and an application used by the European Continent to Navigate the roads using a more current version.)

Someone else posted that if you don't want the Java or the SSV Helper you can disable it, and thanks for that information since it's possible I will need to disable the SSV in the future.  The good thing for me is I can turn it off and on again now using the route he described.  So if you don't want the apps running disable them, but if you find something on the Internet that somehow isn't working right, you may want to keep the path in mind on how to enable them again.

Hailing Frequencies Closed

Why don't you just admit you are an incompetent person, and perpetrating a fraud on here!

People come here for real answers, not to support your incredible ego.

The overwhelming number of near-useless, tautological replies to this question here and elsewhere is pretty disappointing.

Here is what I discovered, buried inthis bug report on Sun's Java community:

"This object is responsible for a propagation of Java Plug-in settings from admin account to all regular (non admin) user accounts. In other words if SSVHelper is registered with IE then the only thing admin needs to do in order to switch from a new Java Plug-in to an old Java Plug-in is to run from a command line: ssvagent.exe -high -jpisetup -old or uncheck a checkbox "Enable the next generation Java Plug-n" in Java Control Panel. In both cases changes will be propagated to non admin user accounts."

Therefore, if you are not in a managed, Enterprise environment—as in, this is your own personal computer—then the SSVHelper Java Browser Helper Object does nothing useful for you, and can be safely disabled.

Thank you so much for your explaining this in a clear concise manner to someone that done not understand all the tech lingo.  I appreciate people taking time to help others out.  Sometimes it takes hours to find out a simple answer like this.  My poor computer has enough problems and I do not want anything that I don't need!

Thanks again and please keep up the great help!

TWO THUMBS UP!!