A number of readers have pointed out that Apple's developer documentation for its Java updates for Mac OS X released yesterday reveals that the ...

Java’s shady bundled adware is no longer a Windows exclusive, as Oracle has started sneaking the Ask.com toolbar into the Mac version. Similar to the Windows version, Java for OS X now attempts ...

Also, Java was designed to be a cross-platform technology that would allow applications to run seamlessly regardless of the operating system relied upon by the user.

Apple updates Java for Mac OS X 10.6, but hints that it's winding down its support in future versions of the operating system.

Any operating system running JRE 1.7 is affected, but the attack doesn’t work against JRE 1.6. That last one is the version that Mac users have installed (assuming they use Java at all).

The move followed Apple’s earlier decision to “deprecate” Java — in other words, to stop bundling the software with Mac OS X — in future versions of the operating system.

For years, Oracle has tormented Windows users by bundling adware with its Java installer for Windows PCs. Now Oracle has begun including the same adware as part of a default installation of Java ...