Protect your computer better by keeping Java updated, or eradicate it completely. Yasin Soliman explains.

The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (USCERT) lists the following steps, which may or may not completely remove Java from IE: In the Windows Control panel, open the Java item.

Did you remove all Java installations? Are you certain which runtime it's actually trying to use and removed that on? 10.11 can have both Java 6 and Java 8 on at the same time.

However, as Brian Krebs pointed out, the US-CERT warned the steps “may or may not completely remove Java from IE.” Krebs has a nice overview of how to unplug Java from browsers for Windows and ...