Windows users, it’s a good thing to know that Tuesday is the day when Windows admits its flaws and says, “Uh, well, here are a few more issues we did not think about before we sold it to you,” or even worse, “Sorry, but hackers have found a huge flaw and have taken full advantage of it.”
The good thing is, they DO admit to it and give the patches out for free.
Make sure your Windows phone, tablet, computer, or server is updated at least once a week. Windows makes it easy for you to do this by having you automatically do updates.
The simplest way to make sure you get all the necessary updates is to go to the “Updates” function on your device and configure it to update at least once per week or whenever it connects to the internet and you should be good.
There is a caveat to all this; updates sometimes cause more problems than they fix (eg, a new Internet Explorer update that nobody’s website is ready for). Simply do a backup of your system prior to any scheduled updates so if the update does cause an issue, you can simply revert to the previous version.
This, too, can be done automatically. By doing this, you can make sure you have all of the security threats that have been identified by Microsoft taken care of.
For help on configuring these settings, give us a call—we would be happy to help.
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