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What Exactly Is Java
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and why does the pop up box keep telling to to make changes to the computer.
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You need it for certain websites to work. These days admittedly not so many. Some crossword websites use java applets to display interactive crossword grids for example. Chat rooms are another popular application for them. My advice would be don't install it unless you hit a website that tells you you need java installed in order for it to work.
19:38 Tue 07th Mar 2017
It's a programming language fundamentally. But the implications for you as a browser user are that some web pages use java applets (small embedded java programmes) . Because to run web java programmes you need to have something called an interpreter on your computer, you therefore have to have it downloaded from the official java site.
Beware however; some malicious websites take advantage of this by trying to fool you into downloading what appears to be java but is actually malware.
Beware however; some malicious websites take advantage of this by trying to fool you into downloading what appears to be java but is actually malware.
You need it for certain websites to work. These days admittedly not so many. Some crossword websites use java applets to display interactive crossword grids for example. Chat rooms are another popular application for them. My advice would be don't install it unless you hit a website that tells you you need java installed in order for it to work.