full-disclosure - Re: How to disable Java Deployment Toolkit

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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:22:09 +0100
From: Nick Boyce <nick.boyce@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Cc: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@...gny.2a.pl>
Subject: Re: How to disable Java Deployment Toolkit

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kristof Zelechovski
<giecrilj@...gny.2a.pl> wrote:

> Regarding the Java Deployment Toolkit vulnerability:
> On Windows XP and later: open the Local Security Settings console and create
> a prohibition rule for the path
>  %HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Web
> Start\1.6.0_19\HOME%/JAVAWS.EXE

Hmm ... presumably that would that need repeating for every later (and
older) Java release until the functionality is believed safe ?

Cheers
Nick
-- 
Leave the Olympics in Greece, where they belong.

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