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The warnings are 8-14 and 5-8 words respectively, and state the case concisely. The word "risk" appears nowhere, and is a common English word anyway, and "vulnerable" and its derivatives are also common English words.

How would you rephrase the warning in fewer than 8 words that would have helped your stepfather understand the problem and how to deal with it?

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Somehow I have the feeling we aren't talking about the same warning.

It's french but I doubt the translation process would made the word count explode from 14 words to this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png

(and yes, it popped up on an up-to-date firefox with up-to-date java)

Congratulations, you've just lambasted Mozilla for a Java message. Java pops up that same message for applets in all browsers. Go talk to Oracle, it has absolutely nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox.

Ah, I wouldn't go as far as "lambasted" but it is indeed not Mozilla's wrongdoing in any way.

Maybe I got caught by the fact I had never seen that pop-up before and Firefox just seemed to have been updated the day before.

While we are on the topic: that makes a lot of clicking to get an applet running for the first time.

"Java is disabled in Firefox. [More Info]()"

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-enable-java-if-it...

edit: formatting.

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