Actually, download it.  Oracle has come up with a fix (for today) to plug the hacker exploitation.  Java 7 update 11 is now available from java.com.....

Thanks for the heads up, Jim.  I went the other way and uninstalled it from my laptop yesterday.  Everthing still seems to work without it.  The last company I worked for had computer security an a par with DoD and they had repeated invasion attempts (some successful) and they were always targetted at Java or some Adobe product.

You'd think I would have gotten one of the automatic update notifications.  Between Java, Adobe, and Windows, I seem to update something at least once a day.

I don't use Java that much, at least I think I don't on my home pc, but my work pc is a different story.  I connect in to IBM for for remote activities and downloads.  I'll fix that one this morning.  Oracle acted fairly quickly on this one.  I can imagine the programmers having an all hands on deck 24x7....

For awhile on my home pc, I was getting malware attacks on previous versions of Java, but that was last summer.  They stopped after repeated cleanings or that hole was plugged.  I run Symantec AV and Malwarebytes which as I look down in my tray appears to be non-functioning at the moment.  Good grief, Charlie Brown!

Thanks Jim, I just upgraded my version 6 something. I picked up some sort of Java based bug last week that I had to clean up over the weekend.

WTF? Where did all my browser's shortcuts from the menu bar go? The only one that didn't go away was the shortcut from this site!

Holy ****! ALL my favs are gone!!!

Nevermind, I restarted my PC and all is well once more.

For now...

Between EMC... NetApp... and IBM... it's all Java all the time!