Nicholas Weaver April 12, 2012. The situation has changed in the past hour or two: Apple has released another Java update. The big changes… 1: It detects and removes the major Flashback variants ...

Like the Rapid7 researcher, Krebs recommends end users uninstall Java altogether, advice we at Ars think is worth following for those who have no need for the cross-platform application.

In older versions of Java (1.6 or earlier) Safari's security preferences could be used to disable Java, but this is now done in the Java Control Panel in the system preferences.