Sun have changed the security behaviour of unsigned applets in 1.7.0_45 or 40. They have now created and set a new deployment property: deployment.security.use.user.home.java.policy=false This means ...
Comment out this line to disable<BR># this feature.<BR>policy.allowSystemProperty=true<P># whether or not we look into the IdentityScope for trusted Identities<BR># when encountering a 1.1 signed JAR ...