Quote:paladindythe wrote:
There's some helpful security habits to get into as well:
- Keep your computer updated with Windows Update
- regularly check for updates for all the software you use
On point two there, I'd like to recommend http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/]Secunia's Personal Software Inspector. I discovered this utility through a recommendation by the Windows Secrets newsletter, and I've been using it for about a year now. It identifies all the third-party programs on your PC that do not automatically update themselves and keeps them updated for you. When for some reason it can't do the update itself, it lets you know to do it. It can also identify obsolete and sunsetted software, and lets you override its settings on a per-application basis. It's not perfect -- there's way too much out there for any one program to know it all -- but I have yet to have a program it didn't know about.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.