Great, thanks! I originally added the line to filebot.l4j.ini but I see the installed program's shortcut corresponds to filebot.launcher.exe and as such edited filebot.launcher.l4j.ini with the suggested lines and I'm no longer harassed to upgrade.

Java 7 End-of-Life is scheduled for March/April 2016 so it's pretty soon, so any issue will solve itself in a few months time. The update notifications can be disabled by setting this Java property (in filebot.sh) -Dapplication.update=skip Could you please advise as to how to implement this switch ...