You will be missing out on a lot of web content if you don’t allow Java.

I use Sun’s Java as the Firefox plugin and occasionally get the avast! warnings you’ve been getting, but I wouldn’t turn Java off because of that, just keep it up to date.

You should be able to access the control console form
your Start menu in your Programs list. It will be listed as Sun Sytems Java, or something like that. I’m not on my own machine at the moment so I can’t tell you for sure.

PigDog