# Re: Unsigned Applet warning in appletviewer

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:56:24 -0700

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:56:24 -0700

    Message-Id: <199707140056.RAA01538@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: ZAHMED@us.oracle.com

    Subject: Re: Unsigned Applet warning in appletviewer

Sorry, there is no way to turn off the warning banner. We apologize
for the inconvenience and ugliness, but we feel it is important to
distinguish pop-up windows created by downloaded applets, from other
popup windows. The reason is that malicious applets would try to
"spoof" your system, by mimicing the actions of legitimate popup
windows. This situation will be greatly improved in the next major
release of the JDK, when we have support for fine-grain access control
for particular applets (whether signed or not.) There is not yet a
publically announced date for the next major release of JDK.

Marianne

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