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<title>Risk: Trust signed applets</title>
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<h1 class="topictitle1">Risk: Trust signed applets</h1>
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<div><p>This topic describes security risks from signed Java™ applets
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and provides recommendations for reducing these risks.</p>
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<p>Your users might have followed your advice and set up their browsers to
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prevent applets from writing to any PC drives. However, your PC users need
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to be aware that a signed applet can override the setting for their browser.</p>
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<p>A signed applet has an associated digital signature to establish its authenticity.
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When a user accesses a Web page that has a signed applet, the user sees a
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message. The message indicates the applet’s signature, who signed it and when
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it was signed. When your user accepts the applet, the user grants the applet
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an override to the security settings for the browser. The signed applet can
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write to the PC’s local drives, even though the default setting for the browser
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prevents it. The signed applet can also write to mapped drives on your server
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because they appear to the PC to be local drives.</p>
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<p>For your own Java applets that come from your server, you might need
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to use signed applets. However, you should instruct your users in not
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to accept signed applets from unknown sources.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzamvsecurityinternet.htm" title="Use this information to learn about common security threats from using Internet browsers.">Security considerations for internet browsers</a></div>
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