Java is pissing me off with all the malware crap

Java has been so crap lately... it's so annoying and very exploitable in terms of malware. A few months ago, well at the start of this year I managed to get infected with some kind of annoying malware called smad.exe. I got it from advertisements on a RS link generator site, I knew it was through Java because when one of the ads showed up, Java automatically launched and then I would get this freaking smad.exe malware. Same thing happened again to another laptop a few months later. This is not something that an antivirus can protect you from because it's an issue with Java. I was running Kaspersky and it generally is awesome, but it didn't seem to block the Java malware.

It's now May, I'm running AVG (I know, I know...), but I've also got Malwarebytes and I now seem to be infected with some 7search.com bullshit which redirects Google search results every now and then (not all the time though, it's rare but it happens) to 7search.com. I've run a few scans using different tools and none of them seem to find anything, so I don't know if this maybe has something to do with the sites or what? I've also just cleaned the Java cache files and the whole lot so maybe this will solve the problem.

Anyone had any similar issues with Java?

PS. My Java is always updated.

Disable Java in your browser and use Kaspersky.

Until I disabled Java, I had a lot of issues. It's imperative to do this if you are using your computer for submissions or if you visit a lot of questionable sites.

i just have java disabled in my browser. never had to use it for anything really.

I guess I'm going to follow the advice above but I do use it every now and then. Other than that I'm studying Java at Uni so I can't exactly dump it altogether... lol

Use The noscript plugin to prevent these driveby attacks

Java drive by i presume!

Nope, not Java drive by. No pop up boxes no nothing appears with this malware crap. Java automatically runs without asking for access via the "run application" box.

Yes this is indeed a Java Driveby
its a "SILENT" Java Driveby.
i have written a Silent JDB and it works perfect :147:

Pro tip: uninstall Java or disable the browser extensions (aboutlugins or about:addons depending on your browser). Java is notoriously insecure despite the fact that they try to sandbox everything, as are previous versions of flash and all versions of Adobe Reader. I would suggest only having Flash installed to be honest, and use Google Docs for .pdf files as opposed to having Adobe Reader installed.

ShadeDream said:

This is not something that an antivirus can protect you from because it's an issue with Java.

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Antiviruses are mostly useless anyway. To give you a metric, it 's like 200 lines of code to bypass them.

Never browse with java/flash enabled in the browser unless it 's sandboxed or in a VM (the browser itself).

Boot into Gnu/Linux whenever you need to access important things like your online bank account.

Java is one of the worst inventions of our century, second only to dot net.
My PC was infected only twice, the first time due to ActiveX, the second time due to Java.
When I see someone trying to present JAVA as advantage (for example software vendors), I black-list the website.
My Andorid has zero personal information on it, because it runs Java.
Although I know Java, I never wrote a single meaningful line of code in that language, because the concept is awful.

Some things, are invented to serve as a bad examples for the future generations, Java and Chuck Norris are two of them.