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question on recent Java virus affecting JRE/applets

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From	"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject	question on recent Java virus affecting JRE/applets
Date	Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:31:29 -0500
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I have been reading more lately about a virus from some
Java applets.

This article below suggest to disable Java plugins in the browser,
which I just did just in case:

http://news.techeye.net/security/virus-installs-in-your-memory

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-Java-hole-being-exploited-on-a-large-scale-1485681.html

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"However, not even those who use the most current version of Java can
feel entirely safe"
...
"To be on the safe side, users can completely uninstall Java
or at least disable the browser plug-in"
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My question: Does this virus problem also affects downloading
a java application as a jar file and running it on the PC
or you think it only affects JRE and applets that run
in a browser?

Because sometimes I do download a java jar file, and wanted to
know if I should also stop that (until this Java virus thing
is all resolved).

--Nasser

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question on recent Java virus affecting JRE/applets "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2012-03-28 20:31 -0500
  Re: question on recent Java virus affecting JRE/applets Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-28 22:28 -0400

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