Java Vulnerabilities

[blashmet]

Is there a registry file I can run that would disable the browser plugin?

[jakarman]

How do I disable Java in my web browser? (oracle java link) en Why should I uninstall older versions of Java from my system?   
This is going to get a little bit to the edge of the area I am moving arround. I needed this all for the issue running SAS.

[blashmet]

I know how to disable Java through the control panel, but you mentioned that the browser plugin is enabled/disabled via the registry. Also, you mentioned that disabling the browser plugin makes one insusceptible to Java vulnerabilities. So I have two questions:

1) Is there a way to disable the Java browser plugin via a simple .reg file?

2) If the browser plugin is disabled for all versions of Java on the system, does one really need to uninstall the old versions?

[jakarman]

Blashmet, I do not know what you know about the Windows registry. It has a good name of doing automatization. It has a very bad name as buildng up a lot of a rubbish in it, very bad documented on all vaules an options. Changing names and locations by releases. This is life at the hard-core system level.
1/ Probably Oracle could deliver a reg file for disabling the java plugin, you should ask Larry.

2/ See the note to registry contents, you cannot really trust that. Unistalling is trying to clean that up. Do a research on your contents (regedit).    

[jakarman]

[Solved] Java Plug-in 1.6.0_24 jp2iexp.dll.  (plugin problems java install uninstall)

[jakarman]

for the big companies...

Installation for Conventional Applets Silent installation has the option not to install the plugin.