What are these mToolkit programs on my Dell laptop (Can I just remove them?)?

[David H. Lipman]

From: "lisa harkema" <lisa.harkema@gmail.com>


|
| I removed the java programming group (it was a group I arbitrarily
| found with the word "java" in it) and substituted a Microsoft security
| group.
|
| I did not know about this Java vulnerability. If I had, I would have
| updated my java sooner even though I don't use it (on purpose,
| anyway).
|
| I do appreciate the warning as it seems I had the original Java
| installed on my Dell so it was vulnerable (and likely exploited
| already as I had to remove more than a few viruses and trojans
| (whatever they are) when I installed spywareblaster and mcafee.
|
| Lisa

What blows my mind is that this vulnerability has been known about for almost 2 years by Sun
and was first publicy noted by Sun on Feb 7, '06 but Dell still is shipping systems with
this vulnerable version installed.


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Dave
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[Malke]

David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "lisa harkema" <lisa.harkema@gmail.com>
>
>
> |
> | I removed the java programming group (it was a group I arbitrarily
> | found with the word "java" in it) and substituted a Microsoft
> | security group.
> |
> | I did not know about this Java vulnerability. If I had, I would have
> | updated my java sooner even though I don't use it (on purpose,
> | anyway).
> |
> | I do appreciate the warning as it seems I had the original Java
> | installed on my Dell so it was vulnerable (and likely exploited
> | already as I had to remove more than a few viruses and trojans
> | (whatever they are) when I installed spywareblaster and mcafee.
> |
> | Lisa
>
> What blows my mind is that this vulnerability has been known about for
> almost 2 years by Sun and was first publicy noted by Sun on Feb 7, '06
> but Dell still is shipping systems with this vulnerable version
> installed.
>
>
Not only that, David - I just ran into a client's box that is running an
ancient version of Java within an HP Toolbox. I had uninstalled Java
before cleaning it up so I was most surprised to see javaw.exe running.
When I tracked it down, it came from this HP printer Toolbox running
Java 1.3.something! No way to deal with that, so I left it. Sheesh.

Malke
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