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On 5/8/2012 6:04 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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> Java should automatically update these days.


The article specifically mentions Apple, who didn't patch their own 
special version of Java for several months, until they got bit hard by a 
trojan or something.

Yes, Oracle's new version for the Mac does enable auto-updates.  But 
there's enough old Java out there that I guess many don't have it.