"Are you aware how software is written?
Have you noticed how Microsoft sends out regular updates to Windows? Have you noticed other software companies such as Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Adobe (Adobe Reader) sending out regular updates to their programs? That's how software companies work."
Yes, because they won't sit down and fix their bug ridden code with more security holes in it than Swiss cheese, there's far too much code and too many millions of lines of it to go over and correct all the errors, bugs and mistakes, so they send out PATCHES (updates) all the time to close up one hole or another that allowed people's computers to be hacked, hijacked or ruined by worms, virus or hackers. Microsoft/Gates made a fortune on their software and all, that's why Gates is the richest man on the planet.
JAVA is the latest one that was suddenly discovered to have major security issues bad enough they told people to disable JAVA entirely in their viewers for now. It won't be an update they send it, it will be another PATCH to fix the flaws, and that's really how software companies work.