About the 0 day exploit and the CERT advisory: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235615/US_CERT_Disable_Java_in_browsers_because_of_exploit What this means is that people are encouraged to disable the Java plugin in their web browsers, not to stop using Java altogether. Instructions for how to do this in Google Chrome are here: http://superuser.com/questions/201613/disable-java-plugin-in-google-chrome http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/tutorials/how-to-disable-java-in-chrome/ Instructions for Firefox are here: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20turn%20off%20Java%20applets For players who use the browser to load the game or who use a browser other than Firefox or Chrome, I can't offer any suggestions.