Does Java have a built-in Antivirus?
One of my friends told me there is in the JVM itself – it’s called the “sandbox”. Is it true?
Does Java have a built-in Antivirus? One of my friends told me there is
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Does Java have a built-in Antivirus?
One of my friends told me there is in the JVM itself – it’s called the “sandbox”. Is it true?
Java does have a security-related concept called “sandbox”, but it works very differently from typical anti-virus products. The latter usually try to catch viruses via signatures or code analysis before they are executed.
The Java sandbox on the other hand allows you to run Java code while witholding from it access to system resources that could be used to to bad things, e.g. no access to any files.
However, only Java applets and Java Web Start applications run in a sandbox per default. Regular java applications have full access to your system.