Proventing the download of malious java applets ?

hi all

I’m currently using the latest build of fire fox and the latest build of java from sun micro systems and though that with the safe guards I have in place my computer would be ok but when I ran my virus scanner during a routine maintenance cycle recently a discovered that I had picked up infected java applets which surprised me because my virus scanner normally stops these before being downloaded

but somehow these managed to slip through undetected which demonstrates a small weakness in my defences which I'd like to plug

so to my question is there a security setting somewhere in either java or in ff to stop the downloading of java applets that could contain potentially malious code which could be used to breach my systems security ?

 

Launch Java Control Panel, delete all Java applications and applets, and set storage for both to 0MB.

Java will still function, however no viruses will have a place to store themselves.

 

Ronjor do you get the same effect if it is blocked from accessing the internet through your firewall?
T

 

hi

while this isnt a bad idea coz it stops them being stored on my computer it still dosnt stop them being activated when im surfing

problen with this is that alot of lgit sights depend on java to operate correctley so this isnt an option really

 

if u have teh latest noscript extension for firefox it can optionally (in addition to JS)block flash, java, and other plugins for untrusted sites.

 

Actually, Java security will prevent a virus from executing. Those settings are configured in the Java Control Panel 'Advanced' tab.

 

Hi,
Are you talking about java or javascript?
People seem to have mentioned both.
Mrk

 

java but the noscript extension i mentioned can block both.

 

hi

thanks for the link WSFuser ill check it out