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10 Things To Do For A Healthy & Secure PC: Date - May 03, 2006; Author - Darren Miller; This article lists 10 things that are of key importance in maintaining a healthy computer. To many of us these steps seem so common place, but it makes for good reading you can hand to that friend or family member just getting started with computers.
Administrator’s Shortcut Guide to Patch Management – Chapter 2 – Best Practices: Date - Feb 08, 2005; Author - Realtimepublishers.com, Inc.; Several companies and security patch administrators consider the patching process to be a single step that provides a secure computing landscape. In reality, the patching process is a continuous cycle that must be strictly followed. Each step in the process must be tuned and modified based on previous successes and failures. As many realize, patching computers is a fact of life as part of the defense in depth security strategy. By spending time up front to create policies and procedures, companies can minimize the time and resource requirements needed to fulfill the patching demands. In this chapter, you will read about each step in the patch management process.
Beating Hackers to the Patch: Date - Oct 06, 2003; Author - NetSupport Solutions, Inc; It’s a good thing the Blaster worm and its variations weren’t really insidious. Had it devastated hard drives, it could have inflicted billions of dollars in lost productivity and other damages globally rather than just significantly annoying Microsoft and IT managers. But Blaster and the Sobig variations are a wake-up call. Cyber attacks are growing rapidly and the potential for them to quickly exploit security holes and wreak havoc is mounting.
Patch management with GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS: Date - Apr 29, 2003; Author - GFI Software; Patch management is an essential network administration task and consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available. This white paper provides an overview of how to use GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) and Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) to keep your network updated.

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