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Is your Java up to date?

For a long time, the experience of patching Sun's Java software has been less than pleasant. The updates were huge and time consuming, the patching instructions were a mess and, even worse, Sun never removed older, vulnerable versions from the patched machine.

Written by Ryan Naraine, Contributor Feb. 14, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. PT

Now it appears that things have been fixed. For starters, the company is offering this very important link that allows users to run a quick scan to determine whether the Java environment installation is up to date.

[ How does Apple get away with this badware behavior? ]

I ran the tool on a Vista installation and not only did it find and patch my Java, it actually removed all remnants of the Update 11 environment.

The update process still has a badware component. Sun is bundling the MSN Toolbar with the Java patch and it's pre-checked by default.

Ugh!

* Hat tip: ISC Sans diary.

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