Re: Why you should use a firewall on Win98

From: Connected (connected_at_somewhere.here)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:07:18 -0800

On 15 Mar 2005 16:14:20 GMT, elaich <a@b.c> wrote:

>Connected <connected@somewhere.here> wrote in
>news:i8ic3118m6hlhqg320nt91f6sv4jaingma@4ax.com:
>
>> The spyware installer is a Java applet
>> powered by the Sun Java Runtime Environment, which allows them to
>> whack most browsers out there, including Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape
>> and others.
>
>Incorrect. Java has to be installed on Firefox. It does not come bundled
>with it. Therefore, to be safe from this exploit, all the user has to do is
>say "no" to Java, which most security minded people do by default.

I didn't type that the article did. I don't have Java enabled, nor
java scripting.

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