A lot of us are updating our Operating Systems regularly with the latest security patches. Unfortunately we are not as vigilant about the applications that have become such an integral part of our experience of the internet. Many of these applications have had critical security flaws exposed in recent months and new flaws are revealed regularly. With this in mind here is an "off the cuff" list of applications that you should update if you haven't done so recently:
- Apple's Quicktime
- RealPlayer
- Flash Player
- Java Virtual Machine
If I get really motivated I might post some links for you. Most of the updates are pretty easy and can usually been done through the browser if you go to the company's page for the software. Also some of this software includes settings that can prompt you when updates are available. In the past I considered these upgrade prompts as annoyances and the memory resident programs running them as nothing more than performance killers. To a certain extent that remains true but I believe the value of the little pop up reminder when upgrades are available now outweighs the performance hit that your system will take if you leave the program running in the background.
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