What is the Java TM Plug in SSV Helper

Anonymous
2011-06-10T23:54:12+00:00

What is the Jave TM Plug in SSV Helper?

Do I need it?

If I don't need it, how do I get rid of it?

I'm running Windows Vista.

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Anonymous
2011-06-11T01:41:43+00:00

Java is a programming language. You need something called the Java Runtime Environment to run programs written in Java. The Plugin is part of that. A small number of websites also use this. The Java Runtime Environment will appear in Programs and Features in the Control Panel and can be uninstalled from there. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the uninstallation that leaves the entry for the plugin in the Internet Explorer Manage Addons window after Java is uninstalled. This is harmless because the file has been deleted. To remove the entry in Manage Addons would require editing the Registry.

This bug has been known since at least 2008, but nothing seems to have been done about it.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6747116

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-07T21:51:39+00:00

    thasnks for making it easy for me to understand. also explaining the uses of this application in case i wanted to use it....

    I think Java is intended as a "beginner" web developers tool. If you are not a Network information worker, or private web developer, can't imagine what you really need it for. If you see popups asking you to install something, treat them like viruses. If they persist, block the site elliciting them.

    hth,

    mark

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-07T21:43:57+00:00

    What is the Java TM Plug in SSV Helper? Do I need it? If I don't need it, how do I get rid of it? I'm running Windows Vista. -- dcorrell7335, June 10, 2011… The original dying system scream. * * *

    From http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=762. A short answer: Don't enable if not under a network * * *

    It's 2013 now. This is an enduring topic. Big UMMM here. Why is Microsoft not fixing this? * * *

    Maybe we need to share some blunt honesty. Java like Flash is a browser extension, but it is also a program that wraps itself around your OS, whatever your OS is. Once it’s installed, your OS installation is permanently ‘dented’. Personally, I find Flash is the bad boy. It saturates 70% of Internet traffic with pornography, drugs, ripped-off soft wares, you name it, it gets corrupted and corrupts everything else in your machine. Java is much kinder. Other than the SSV Helper fiasco, and a few trillion virus segments written to infect Java, she’s fine. * * *

    http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp * * *

    If only Flash (*) was so sweet. If only java were part of Windows, Mac, Linux, it would be adequately secured. Can we live without it? YES! As for those viral popups (Microsoft and Apple are snickering at us lab rats right now, Linux is cool), DO NOT INSTALL. Browsing family sites last few days, I only had to open Control Panel / Programs and Features once to remove some garbage hacker’s Flash application that Windows installed without permission. * * *

    Choose your friends wisely, boys and girls! * * *

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