Java Security Prompts

Now I'm really confused, by Java Security Prompts.

Frequently on Firefox, I get a message that a script won't stop, and do
I want to stop it or let it Continue running (expecting that it will
finish on its own eventually, right?)

I used to sometimes choose Continue, but that always brought up the same
message a while later. Sometimes a pretty long while. So now I always
click Cancel.

In the same box is a check box, Don't ask me this questoin again.

After trying to figure out what both checked and non-checked, don't ask
and ask, would do, I decided to check Don't ask. expecting that the
next time it would have asked me, it would just Cancel the script like I
told it to this time.

Was I wrong??

Are these the "security prompts" that the message below, during
installation, is referring to? They must be because they are the only
messages I've told it not to display.

Yesterday I started to install the latest release of Java.
The new installation of Java I have almost completed installing, and I
have gotten a message box, quote:

Restore Java Secruity Prompts

Some Java security prompts have been hidden when you selected the "Don't
show this again" option. You can improve the security of your personal
information by restoring these prompts every 30 days...." There was a
little more, but darn, by accident I just clicked Finish or something,
and when I clicked Back, it didn't go back.


I had clicked on See more information and I got this, which is just as
confusing as the box was.

http://java.com/en/download/help/restore_prompts.xml
Restore security prompts by clearing previously remembered security
decisions. This article applies to: Java version(s): 7.0

Starting with 7u51, users are given an option to restore the security
prompts for any prompts that were hidden more than 30 days prior to
installing the latest Java release.

An option to hide a prompt in the future is included in some security
prompts that are shown when an application starts. To insure the
continued security of your system, it is recommended that you
periodically restore the prompts that were hidden**. Seeing the prompts
again provides an opportunity to review the applications and ensure that
you still want them to run.

To restore the prompts that were previously hidden, from the Java
Control Panel, click Restore Security Prompts. When asked to confirm the
selection, click Restore All. The next time an application is started,
the security prompt for that application is shown.

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**Why don't they just recommend that one never hide a security prompt.
That I not check the box that hides them? Why hide them and 30 days
later restore them. What about the 28 days in between?

Why do they have scripts that don't stop anyhow? It seems to me they
must be written wrong, but even so, why don't they put in a counter and
make them self-stopping, or if you stop them once, why not stop them
every time after the same number of iterations of the script?

| **Why don't they just recommend that one never hide a security prompt.
| That I not check the box that hides them? Why hide them and 30 days
| later restore them. What about the 28 days in between?
|

Does it matter? It's just nag nonsense, probably
intended to make the Java people look like they're
on top of things. (Java is one of the more common
attack vectors.) You should only install Java at all if you
*must* have it for a particular website. Even then you
should contact the people who run that website and
ask them to please get their act together. Java was
really designed for use within a secure corporate intranet.
It has no business being used in webpages.

| Why do they have scripts that don't stop anyhow?

It could just be a faulty script going in a loop. Or maybe
it's a script waiting for something. Webpage script has been
getting extremely complex in the past couple of years.
I've also run into that problem with HTAs, which run in an
IE window. In that case it's just an involved script that
takes several minutes to run. It's *supposed to* take a
long time. But with IE the whole thing is even more ridiculous.
If I click the button to allow the script to keep running it
asks me again in 2-3 seconds. The *only* real choice,
without changing an obscure Registry setting, is to stop
the script!
....So, count your blessings.

micky wrote:
Now I'm really confused, by Java Security Prompts.

Frequently on Firefox, I get a message that a script won't stop, and do
I want to stop it or let it Continue running (expecting that it will
finish on its own eventually, right?)


Are you mixing up Java with Javascript ?

They're two different things.

Javascript support is part of the basic browser.

To make Java work, on the other hand, requires a download. And
Java (used to make some graphical web games work) is not the
best thing from a security viewpoint. I don't leave the Java
optional package installed on this machine. When you go to the
game page, a Java "jar" file is downloaded, and the optional
Java package helps the code in there, to run.

But I do leave Javascript enabled in the browser, and that's
mainly because so many web pages would break, if their
advertising scripts did not run.

The message in question, is more likely to be Javascript.

Paul

"micky" wrote in message
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| Now I'm really confused, by Java Security Prompts.
| Frequently on Firefox, I get a message that a script won't stop, and do
| I want to stop it or let it Continue running (expecting that it will
| finish on its own eventually, right?)

It no a Firefox or a Java error
It's a Webpage Error
Make be the webmaster

Always Cancel it

| I used to sometimes choose Continue, but that always brought up the same
| message a while later. Sometimes a pretty long while. So now I always
| click Cancel.
| In the same box is a check box, Don't ask me this questoin again.
| After trying to figure out what both checked and non-checked, don't ask
| and ask, would do, I decided to check Don't ask. expecting that the
| next time it would have asked me, it would just Cancel the script like I
| told it to this time.
| Was I wrong??

Alway Cancel a the Webmaster script

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| Are these the "security prompts" that the message below, during
| installation, is referring to? They must be because they are the only
| messages I've told it not to display.
| Yesterday I started to install the latest release of Java.
| The new installation of Java I have almost completed installing, and I
| have gotten a message box, quote:
| Restore Java Secruity Prompts
| Some Java security prompts have been hidden when you selected the "Don't
| show this again" option. You can improve the security of your personal
| information by restoring these prompts every 30 days...." There was a
| little more, but darn, by accident I just clicked Finish or something,
| and when I clicked Back, it didn't go back.
| I had clicked on See more information and I got this, which is just as
| confusing as the box was.
| http://java.com/en/download/help/restore_prompts.xml
| Restore security prompts by clearing previously remembered security
| decisions. This article applies to: Java version(s): 7.0
| Starting with 7u51, users are given an option to restore the security
| prompts for any prompts that were hidden more than 30 days prior to
| installing the latest Java release.
| An option to hide a prompt in the future is included in some security
| prompts that are shown when an application starts. To insure the
| continued security of your system, it is recommended that you
| periodically restore the prompts that were hidden**. Seeing the prompts
| again provides an opportunity to review the applications and ensure that
| you still want them to run.
| To restore the prompts that were previously hidden, from the Java
| Control Panel, click Restore Security Prompts. When asked to confirm the
| selection, click Restore All. The next time an application is started,
| the security prompt for that application is shown.
| We think you might also be interested in:
| Where is the Java Control Panel on Windows?

Was @ Windows Control Panel

Now at
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\bin\jmc.exe

I running only jdk1.7.0_45

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| Where is the Java Control Panel on Mac?
| **Why don't they just recommend that one never hide a security prompt.
| That I not check the box that hides them? Why hide them and 30 days
| later restore them. What about the 28 days in between?
| Why do they have scripts that don't stop anyhow? It seems to me they
| must be written wrong, but even so, why don't they put in a counter and
| make them self-stopping, or if you stop them once, why not stop them
| every time after the same number of iterations of the script?

Written wrong Yes Dam
Webmaster are Human

No scripts is self-stopping

Maybe Webmaster need
to Restore Java
Secruity Prompts
And fix it be for you see it

| Now at
| C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\bin\jmc.exe
|
| I running only jdk1.7.0_45


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