An untrusted applet poses a lot of security threats. Some of them are presented in this section. An important part of creating a safe environment for a program to run, is in identifying the resources and then providing certain types of limited access to these resources. The following are the types of attacks from malicious applets:
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It is not possible to classify an applet as performing an annoyance attack. This attack has more to do with netiquette than Java.
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