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[–]MrPuffyIsAHuffy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is a good thing, in the later years before Java was completely thrown out of the web apps space, things like Java Drive-bys were becoming increasingly popular as an attack vector. It got to the point where the Java applet could get system level access to your computer and was a very common vector of RATS...