Some enterprises disable autoupdates during installation. But on uninstallation of a JRE, auto update is turned on. This issue is in all 1.4.2_XX releases, 5.0 releases.

SBC is one of the customers:


Santosh Dhavalikar wrote:
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>>>>>Hi Stanley,
>>>>>
>>>>>How are you? Hope things are fine at your end.
>>>>>
>>>>>We have following observations reported by SBC. Can you let me know
>>>>>your suggestions or any workaround to avoid this. SBC has expressed
>>>>>concern on this behavior as this creates problem in there silent mode
>>>>>installation.As result of UPDATE tab being set automatically jre
>>>>>plug-in which keeps polling over a period for update and pop-up
>>>>>window for 1.5.0.-04 install & waits for user intervention. This
>>>>>prevent silent installation of jre in there IT setup.
>>>>>
>>>>>Please note jre's where installed with javaupdate=0 in batch file.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can you please suggest how to avoid this? Please cc'd your
>>>>>suggestions to all as I am on vacation next week so my colleague
>>>>>Sreenatha can provide update to SBC. Is this a bug?
>>>>>They are desperate to know workaround on this. Can you please advise?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks & Regards,
>>>>>Santosh