Another Java Security Hole in Windows

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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Re:Why link to newspapers for this sort of thing?

[Account 10]

Sun's part of the joint release includes the Netscape versions affected

The full and custom installations of Netscape 6.1, 6.0.1, and 6.0
are affected since they include an affected version of the
Java Runtime Environment. The default Java runtime environments of
Netscape(TM) Communicator version 4.79 and earlier are affected.

Sun and Microsoft and DOJ announce exploit in JVM

[spike666]

In a rare press conference featuring Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and the Department of Justice, a exploit was found regarding usage of the Java Virtual Machine under the Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP/CE) environment. Apparently usage of said JVM is likely to increase the amount of lawsuits filed by these 2 companies, leading to a bogging down of the DOJ's case queue. the DOJ is currently recommending that you cease using your computer, pick up a pen and paper and use them instead. One Anonymous DOJ spokesman said "We've found that we can reduce our case load by 30% if all users of computers stop and just go ahead and use pens, pencils, paper and the abacus. If it was good enough for Confucius, it's good enough for America!"

Curiously, no comment was issued by Larry Ellison, Chief Entertainment Officer, Oracle Corporation.

Another?

[pmz]

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.