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How can I run or activate Java in the browser?This article applies to:. Platform(s): Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, macOS. Browser(s) Firefox, Internet Explorer, SafariInternet Explorer - Out-of-date ActiveX control blockingInternet Explorer (IE) has a new security feature, called ActiveX control blocking, to keep ActiveX controls, such as Java, up-to-date.
Firefox no longer offers a version which supports NPAPI, the technology required to run Java applets. Firefox - Activate Java plug-in (Firefox 52 ESR and below)Firefox implemented a new Click to Play security feature that protects against attacks, targeting plug-ins that are known to be vulnerable. This feature prevents applets from automatically loading and allows users to control what content they want to run or avoid. If you try to run a Java applet using a Java plug-in version that is identified as vulnerable, Firefox will prevent the applet from automatically loading and alert you that the plug-in is vulnerable.
If an update is available, Firefox will provide the option toupdate or activate the plug-in. We recommend checking for updates before activating the plug-in. Additionally, Firefox provides an option to block or automatically activate the plug-in on a per-site basis.» (mozilla.org)Chrome.
As part of our to delivering a more secure browser, starting September 9th Internet Explorer will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. Note: The original post stated that the ActiveX blocking would begin on August 12th. Please refer to the addendum for further details.ActiveX controls are small apps that let Web sites provide content, like videos and games, and let you interact with content like toolbars. Unfortunately, because many ActiveX controls aren’t automatically updated, they can become outdated as new versions are released.
It’s very important that you keep your ActiveX controls up-to-date because malicious or compromised Web pages can target security flaws in outdated controls to collect information, install dangerous software, or by let someone else control your computer remotely.For example, according to the latest, Java exploits represented 84.6% to 98.5% of exploit kit-related detections each month in 2013. These vulnerabilities may have been fixed in recent versions, but users may not know to upgrade. How about also prompting the user with a notification to install an activex control if it is not installed?
Fore example, what if I don't have Java or Flash and the page I am visiting requires them. It would be nice if I got a notification with a button to automatically install them, without having to search around the Web and possibly installing something else on a malitious website pretending to be Java for example.Also, in the current implementation, will the update button download and install the update, or will it take me to the vendor's website on which I would then have to manually find and download and install an executable?
If it's the latter case, it's too cumbersome and it will not help that much.Automate stuff as much as possible please. How about some notice before doing it!!! The idea is good, but documentation released 7th and implementation of security update on Aug12th?
@rachelIndeed, you're not funny. And your comment makes you look uneducated (regarding to browser security).IE has been a pretty secure product for a while (more than Firefox).
And with EMET installed it is actually hard to beat!Apparently you have not heard the results of this year's Pwn2Own browser hacking contest. Every major web browser was hacked several times.
Even ChromeOS!IE11 with EMET was the only target to resist despite the highest reward of the contest for anyone pwning it.the point is that if you follow good security practices (EMET, EPM, ) IE can provide you a very secure browsing experience. @Julien –Not quite – ActiveX was too easy to hack (at least in its first several years).
NPAPI never provided an easy mechanism of installing new plugins (as far as I know), while ActiveX has. Nvidia geforce 8500 gt driver. That made it insecure and an abomination. Perhaps that has changed since then, but it was not always like that.Also, NPAPI are in the process of being deprecated as well. Anything that gives websites too much power is in the process of being deprecated, eventually.Browser add-ons are a bit similar to ActiveX, because you can actually install them pretty easily, but they also mostly have much less power and you must approve their installation with a scary warning if it adds an NPAPI plugin (at least in Chrome). And with EMET installed.' '.if you follow good security practices.'
Also, if you unplug the ethernet cable IE has only just decided to block out of date plugins/activex. In 2014.Also, the difference between ActiveX controls and NPAPI plugins is (dumbed down) an NPAPI plugin is to be manually installed on your system, from a known source. Where ActiveX controls aren't (quite) – the location of it is specified by the web page.They are not plug-ins.
Plug-ins are plug-ins.People like YOU are the reason the rest of us still need to use IE for testing. @NumbstillYou're wright about market share, but ChromeOS was hacked despite having less than. Can IT people block that UPDATE button in the warning at all if this is enabled?
The last thing I need are VP's insisting we need to upgrade when in reality we cannot because we have some important applications that will break (and have nearly zero control over fixing).I like the idea of putting in logging for the first month, adding the sites we need to Trusted Sites, and then turning this on. But, if general web surfing generates calls to the Help Desk from angry users saying they want to upgrade Java then that is a big problem.Lastly I hope the logging feature is clear to setup on the back end, unlike the IE11 enterprise mode logging (which had near zero information available when it was first released). @Julien –Chrome OS was indeed hacked and besides being very popular recently (top 10 selling notebooks in the last few years), Google was giving huge, huge prizes ($80,000, if I remember correctly, or some other ridiculous amount). People still want a lot of money. 🙂Regarding ActiveX, like I mentioned, in the first several years, it was an abomination. Since Windows XP SP 2, it was apparently improved (a much needed improvement), but before – it was a serious security issue and plagued lots of users.' And using IE/Metro is safer than using Chrome (all plugins except Flash are blocked, and 64bit/EPM is enabled).'
I cannot agree with this statement.1. Chrome sandboxed Flash, while Internet Explorer does not (and Flash has had many security issues over the years and as far as I know, a lot of them remained unfixed for inappropriate periods of time).2. I believe Chrome blocks NPAPI plugins (not add-ons, though) in Metro as well. Plugins can ruin your computer, while extensions have much less of an attack vector.@Dave –The statistics of W3Schools are not indicative of normal usage, most of the people who use that website are developers and, well, developers generally prefer other browsers.@Don –It is an update that is delivered using Windows Update.
As an administrator, you can prevent your users from getting this update using the normal methods, or delay getting this update. @NumbStill – thanks but actually I find the article to vague regarding blocking. There are screenshots here that show warnings, but not screenshots that show what blocking looks like, unless those screenshots are in fact what users will see when blocking (and they mention doing an update too). I will not bank on anything written here until I have tested it myself. If the block message tells users they need to upgrade then that is just as bad as giving them a button – they can still read and what they see is 'I need an upgrade/My IT sucks'.what they should be thinking is Java sucks. Why the developers over at Oracle cannot patch holes in Java without doing a complete program update breaking other apps is beyond me.
You never see MS release.Net security patches using whole sale program updates that break legacy apps (very rare, and not since 1.1/2.0 in my experience). I am sure the language is wonderful but the JRE client is a bloody nightmare to deal with in a corporate environment. Its installer has had issues for years on 64bit system and it has zero GPO integration, still using text files for configuration management etc.
It is a complete heap of trash. Something breaks every time you upgrade it, and it has had so many security problems they have to go to extreme lengths to force people into upgrading because they cannot fix it all at once and know darn well there will be more holes discovered after this Nth release. @NumbStillSo if you agree that ActiveX support post XP sp2 is fine, why do people continue to say it should be killed because of some pre-XP sp2 behavior? That was 10 years ago for god sake!It's like saying that Firefox sucks because Netscape 6 sucked.About Chrome OS and EMET, in both case the reward was $150 000. It's actually not that much.
Complex exploits can be worth more than that. Anyway, while it doesn't prove much, it still shows that bypassing EMET 4 was not something trivial to do.
Yes there has been a PoC since then, but still not exploit in the wild.As for market share, even if Google claims it has sold a lot of ChromeBooks, strangely that is not reflected by actual market share in OS/browsers usage.As for Flash Player, actually every activeX control is sandboxed by default since Vista/IE7 (write blocked). So Flash Player is sandboxed in both protected mode and EPM, well before Chrome. Interesting idea, similar to what Oracle is doing with old versions of the JRE. But — I did notice something related to Java. A lot of corporate customers are stuck on JRE 6 for whatever reason.
The latest publically available JRE 6 release on Oracle's website is JRE 6 Update 45 According to your matrix, you are warning users about anything older than JRE 6 Update 81. Gaining access to any versions of JRE 6 newer than update 45 requires a support contract from Oracle — it's usually bundled with whatever Oracle product or middleware requires it.
So, it sounds like the end users that this block is targeting will be prompted to upgrade to JRE 7 or 8, which may very well break (badly written corporate) applications. Any idea what large companies should be doing for a BYOD or home-worker style environment??. Will or will not local intranet server be affected?? – The answer above doesn't make any sense: – First they won't – then they will, which is it? –My enterprise has line-of-business web sites that depend on out-of-date Java ActiveX controls in the Intranet zone or Trusted Sites zone, will those be affected by this update?No, sites in the Intranet or Trusted Sites zone will continue to function as usual after applying this update.
Intranet websites accessed through fully-qualified a domain name or IP address are considered to be within the internet zone and will be affected by this update. @RJC, Bruce S: The logs are kept in “%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersionManager. You should just be able to copy them off to a share and run through them with a powershell script. This is all documented in the article here:@TMZ: As the blog post says, these are not officially live until 8/12 so what you are seeing hasn't yet been updated. Stay tuned.@Glenn: Depends on which version of Java IE tries to load.
If it tires to load an outdated version you will get a prompt. If its the latest version then you won't get a prompt.
Numbstill,Fully aware of Enterprise Mode, it doesn't fix all compatibility issues though does most. We were already in flight with IE10 when IE11 was released and the project funding for compatibility testing was already in flight. We can't suddenly deploy IE11 within a few days before this change went ahead. And Java is Java, most LARGE organisations have had trouble with getting MANY apps signed to work post Java 7 Update 51.This is the difference between the 'ideal' world where funding is always flowing and everyone does not have internal politics etc and the 'real' world where in large organisations you can't always get things moving as quickly as you want even if you pounce on it when its released. The only thing that gets out quickly is security updates for OS. What Corey saidSo we now know that logging will not function unless%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersionManagerversionlist.xml has been copied to the users profile.
So you have to wait for IE to download versionlist.xml or manually copy the file.But isn't logging worthless if it doesn't identify what will be in the blocklist. All we will see is 'Not in blocklist' or 'Version not in blocklist' until Sept 9th? This doesn't help us identify what will be blocked based on the latest versionlist.xml.So we are left with the criteria that old versions of Java will be blocked unless your site is in the Intranet or Trusted site zone.
That doesn't help us validate our configurations when the block list changes on sept 9th. Even if I add non Intranet sites into the Trusted site zone I have no way of verifying this configuration.How about provide us with the versionlist.xml that will be used on Sept 9th so we can test and validate our Java based web applications to actually see the behavior of out-of-date Active X blocking? Otherwise logging doesn't not help us prepare for what will be blocked in September. Am I missing something here?. Question: how big is the log file voing to be? I notice that my log contains several lines with the same value, so i wonder if we enable this permanently how much this file will grow.
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Is there any hard coded limit where it starts overwriting?Just thinking loud. Why was not the same logging option considered as exist for enterprise mode? I mean with log file stored locally in the users profile i end building a process collecting these files for 15000 clients spread all over the world.Last but not least. If MS could setup a test page with older versions to ensure all works as expected that would be grat.Kind regardsAlex. I found this that describes the XML hacks required to get it into 'blocking mode' a bit better (I have yet to actually test it though):Reaching out to our TAM for guidance/clarification because this is a bit ridiculous.The best idea for handling this that I have as of now is:.Disable it completely via GPO so things do not break on 9/9 when I assume a new XML will be released.Enable Logging via GPO.Start testing on 9/9 when Microsoft has released a functional XML (Provide a GPO Override or something).Enable it via GPO after proper testing.