Seems unnecessarily obtuse to me.

All I know is I got rid of the Java on this comouter. IE loads so fast and the computer boots much faster. Would have never thought of that so glad there is a problem with Java and this post to make me aware of it.

I uninstalled Java. There were two on my machine. Version 7 update 10 and update 7. I uninstalled both. No problems so far unless you count a very slow page loading, sometimes as long as 25 minutes. This web connect sucks big time. But its a hotspot so I guess I gotta take the good with the bad. lol

I just got an update notice about a new version of Java. Its called jucheck.exe I don't know what it is but I closed it. Any thoughts

jucheck.exe is the update verification checker for Java by Sun Microsystems. Since you have uninstalled Java, you should probably uninstall that as well.

Thank you Doc.

Update...........but my gut says they're not out of the woods yet...........

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/13/us-java-oracle-security-idUSBRE90C0JB20130113

The experts say it still has bugs. I won't be taking Java back any time soon.

It's clearly OK to leave JavaScript enabled.  It's getting a little redundant to say so, but it is unrelated to Java, despite the name, and is necessary for many, many websites to function properly, especially financial institution websites.  Java can go away and you'll never notice because almost nothing needs it anymore, except maybe your washing machine.

apparently i missed even the previous update (u10)  

for those who use java for whatever desktop applications (but not for browser), apparently u10 had a quick tickbox to disable java for browser. which is useful because previous to that, it's a pain to try to disable it from java control panel. the IE box was always ticked even if it's disabled.

which is a bit odd, because that's not supposed to happen since some version of java 6 or maybe 5 (before that, every bloody version of java is kept.. but since whichever update it was, you only have 1 version. that is, 1 version of 32 bit and 1 version of 64 bit if you have both installed)

and if you have both 32bit and 64bit installed... fun because windows control panel is too stupid to realise 32bit java and 64 bit java are not quite the same thing and shows only 1 icon. thus you have to dig through the correct file folder to change settings on both of them. not to mention autoupdate for 32 bit doesn't work when you have 64bit installed... (64bit doesn't have autoupdate)