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Another Java Security Hole in Windows

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-'s-unpossible dept.

tanveer1979 writes: "An article in The Times of India reports that Sun and Miscrosoft have released a joint bulletin about a security hole in the JVM code."

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  1. The Microsoft VM by spike2131 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to Microsoft's bugtraq report, its not the Java Virtual Machine that has the problem, its the "Microsoft Virtual Machine"... I thought that was cute, kinda like claiming the ".html" extention maps to a "Microsoft HTML Document", as I've seen under the Windows defaults.

    This seems to be the direct result of IE forsaking proper applet support for that crappy Active X-plugin-thing we now have to put up with.

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  2. Another? by pmz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is the article title "Another Java Security Hole in Windows"? The title seems to be assuming that there are many, as if really saying, "Oh no! Another Java Security Hole in Windows? What will I do?!?!" Rather, there have been suprisingly few security holes in Java considering the inherent complexity of the JVM and the Java APIs. There are other pieces of popular software that we need to be much more concerned about.

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