while running an auto update on a windows vista box I encountered the following exception (IE was running at the time and needed to be shutdown) - I'm not sure if that's connected. Looking at the code in question, the assumption that the array of bytes returned will contain at least 9 bytes.

The comment suggests to grab the 8th byte even though the 9th byte is being accessed in the array.

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 8
at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.WIExplorerProxyConfig.isAutoDetectEnabled(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.WIExplorerProxyConfig.getBrowserProxyInfo(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.WDefaultBrowserProxyConfig.getBrowserProxyInfo(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DynamicProxyManager.reset(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector.reset(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.initializeExecutionEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

This seems like old code. It's just something I noticed while running an unrelated test.