AvianFlux wrote:
>
> There's a way to take out any risks associated with applets that's
> built into the Java Control Panel settings, however.
>
> Launch the Control Panel, disable Java applet cacheing. As a added
> precaution, set Temporary Internet Files storage to 0 MBs. That way
> nothing, Java applications or applets, will be saved on disk.

If you visit a webpage that runs a malicious Java applet,
it'll do its dirty deed whether there's a cache or not, wouldn't it?
So how would the absence of a cache help you?

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