Steps you should take to fix a Java SE security risk on your computer, a message from Oracle, broadcast by ESET, as requested by the FTC.

In 2013, savvy computer users circulated an online petition requesting that Oracle stop including the Ask.com toolbar with Java updates. Thousands of people signed. But the petition has gone unheeded.

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Java, a programming language used by most computers and browsers, is about as secure as a paper mache bank vault and it acts as an open door into your computer.

The Java virtual machine (JVM) looks to Java programs like a real computer, but it's really a layer that hands off instructions to the lower-level operating system actually running on some ...

Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny ...