Also on Monday, Apple released a version of the designed for Leopard. Apple had offered the same tool to Snow Leopard and Lion users on April 12.

The Flashback seek-and-destroy tool was Apple's response to a massive campaign that exploited a Java vulnerability to .

Apple still maintains Java for users of Snow Leopard and Lion, but last patched the Oracle software for Leopard users in June 2011.

Unlike the Snow Leopard and Lion Flashback removal tool update, the one for Leopard said nothing about automatically disabling the Java plug-in used by browsers such as Safari, Chrome or Firefox.

Security experts and pundits have blasted Apple for its sluggish patching of Java bugs and for .