# Re: Turning off the "Footer message" for an applet window

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Sat, 17 May 1997 12:59:08 -0700

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 12:59:08 -0700

    Message-Id: <199705171959.MAA13509@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: bathricg@agcs.com

    Subject: Re: Turning off the "Footer message" for an applet window

It can't really be turned off; this is meant to alert people to the
fact that an applet created the window, so that epeople can't use
applets to "spoof" other system windows. For example it would be a
bad thing if an applet could "spoof" you into thinking you needed to
type your password into its window. The tag "Warning: Applet
Window" is meant to help people not be spoofed.

for more info about the applet security model, see
http://java.sun.com/sfaq (page down, there's lots of "news" at the
top but the info you're interested in would be towards the bottom.)

Future releases of the JDK will have more tune-able security policies
than the current JDK - see http://java.sun.com/security/handout.html
for a feature summary.

Marianne

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