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Re:New Zero Day Java Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild by SiVal on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:38AM (#5042261)
Does Minecraft use applets or is it just a standalone desktop Java app? Does installing Minecraft create any vulnerability to this bug on a machine whose browsers have deactivated any Java plugin?
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Re:New Zero Day Java Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild by Aticus_Finch on Friday January 11, 2013 @07:15AM (#5042352)
There are unrelated.

Besides downloading the Java app, you can play Minecraft in the browser through an applet at https://minecraft.net/play.

So no, if you are not running Java in the browser, a malicious web page can't run neither Minecraft nor other Java apps that you have locally installed.

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