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Old 30th November 2011
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Default Java is the largest malware target according to Microsoft

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In a posting on the Microsoft Security Blog, Tim Rains, a director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, has written of the huge number of Java exploits being found in the wild. In the second half of 2010 and first half of 2011, between a half and a third of all exploits observed by Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool attacked vulnerabilities in Java – in the Runtime Environment, the Virtual Machine or the Java SE in the Java Development Kit. Rains based his comments on the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.
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I don't doubt it. I would estimate 3/4 viruses I find are in users Java cache folder. Unfortunately, we must still support outdated versions of JRE since certain software explicitly depends on it.
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The problem is that as soon as you install Java, is also installs a browser plugin which is turned on by default.
Remember, client-side Java on the web is as dead as a dead Dodo, and everyone who installs Java uses it just for desktop apps.
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Well, they are talking about "on Windows".
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I just had a Software Engineer position interview (which turned out to be a ASP.Net position, which I found out after I said I hated ASP) anyway the Lead Architect went on for a bit about how everyone was "moving toward Java"...I was real confused by that but apparently that how he saw it.
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In "Code Complete" he advocates Java. Java is also used for Android development.
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The problem is that as soon as you install Java, is also installs a browser plugin which is turned on by default.
Remember, client-side Java on the web is as dead as a dead Dodo, and everyone who installs Java uses it just for desktop apps.
Unfortunately, not true. Many webinar frameworks use client-side Java applets via the browser. Many student information systems (like the one we are saddled with) use client-side Java applets via the browser. We use a web-based version of the NX Client from No Machine ... that's client-side Java via the web browser. And there are probably more, but those are the things I've used today.
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