Java virus

I have received an email from Google that the US department of Defense states that a virus attached to java is active and that java should be disabled. Do you have any information on this topic?

worried Ed

you find tons of java vulnerability info if you google

here is one
http://blogs.computerworld.com/malware-and-vulnerabilities/21056/another-critical-java-vulnerability-puts-1-billion-users-risk

also see our security corner here. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.0