Microsoft Java VM

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Hello All,

Within our company we have an internal website that has training
simulations. These simulations will only run on the Microsoft Java VM
platform and hang up if the Sun JRE is used. I've noticed that there are
security concerns with Microsoft VM so much so that it is no longer offered
with Windows updates. Unfortunately, we are unable to update the simulation
script so that it will run off of Sun JRE, so we are stuck with MVM from now.
My question is will we be protected from the vulnerabilities if we uncheck
the Microsoft VM option within Internet Explorer Options and only check it
when necessary? Let me know if you need any more info and I'll provide what
I can. Thanks in advance.
 
Gary said:
Within our company we have an internal website that has training
simulations. These simulations will only run on the Microsoft Java VM
platform and hang up if the Sun JRE is used. I've noticed that there are
security concerns with Microsoft VM so much so that it is no longer offered
with Windows updates. Unfortunately, we are unable to update the simulation
script so that it will run off of Sun JRE, so we are stuck with MVM from now.
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Why you can't make the necessary modifications? Compiled java classes
usually can be easily decompiled, edited and recompiled.

Jan
 
Mainly because nobody knows how. To my understanding (I'm kind of jumping in
the middle of this situation), the simulations were setup by a third party
vendor as a "free-be" and when they were done they said that in order to
support them and for future designs our company would have to pay $25,000 to
which the answer was, "we don't think so". So, now we have several training
programs that nobody in our company knows how to update or modify.
 
It isn't so much a security issue, as it was that MS was required to pull their Java VM from its web site, and even MSDN subscribers lost access to alot of packages that included it.

You can probably still find it out on the internet, if you don't have archived copies.
 
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subject at hand
Hello All,

Within our company we have an internal website that has
training simulations. These simulations will only run on
the Microsoft Java VM platform and hang up if the Sun JRE
is used. I've noticed that there are security concerns
with Microsoft VM so much so that it is no longer offered
with Windows updates. Unfortunately, we are unable to
update the simulation script so that it will run off of Sun
JRE, so we are stuck with MVM from now.
My question is will we be protected from the
vulnerabilities if we uncheck
the Microsoft VM option within Internet Explorer Options
and only check it when necessary? Let me know if you need
any more info and I'll provide what I can. Thanks in
advance.
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I thought the reason M$ stopped giving it away was because Sun
successfully sued their ass into withdrawing it.
 
Gary said:
Hello All,

Within our company we have an internal website that has training
simulations. These simulations will only run on the Microsoft Java VM
platform and hang up if the Sun JRE is used. I've noticed that there
are security concerns with Microsoft VM so much so that it is no
longer offered with Windows updates. Unfortunately, we are unable to
update the simulation script so that it will run off of Sun JRE, so
we are stuck with MVM from now. My question is will we be protected
from the vulnerabilities if we uncheck the Microsoft VM option within
Internet Explorer Options and only check it when necessary? Let me
know if you need any more info and I'll provide what I can. Thanks
in advance.
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If it is an intranet and not the internet why worry about it?
 
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