Java’s direct responsibility in recent Mac Flashback Trojan attacks have many calling for Java’s retirement. Java exploits are by far the biggest ongoing problem impacting monitored Windows computers. Java has been bedeviled by hundreds of security vulnerabilities over time. Many enterprises live and thrive on Java — both pure Java programs and runtime applets running in the browser. Many computers I’ve examined have two or more versions of Java running, and unfortunately, malicious code can query the visiting computer for its Java versions and run the one that the malicious code knows to be exploitable.”]
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