•One of the most dangerous entry points for delay and
denial threats come from
coded programs that travel with applications to a browser and execute on the user’s computer.
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•A Java
applet, which is a program written in
the Java programming language,
could execute and consume a computer’s resources.
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•A JavaScript program can pose a problem because its programs can run without being compiled before running on a
computer.
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•ActiveX components are Microsoft’s technology for writing small applications that perform some action in Web pages—these
components have full access to a
computer’s file system.