{"id":1610,"date":"2012-03-12T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:45:12","slug":"update-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2012\/03\/12\/update-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Update EVERYTHING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230; please!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides running up to date Anti-virus, one of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">best<\/span> ways to keep your computer from becoming infected (and then losing access to it while it gets re-imaged, etc.) is to keep your Operating System <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> applications up to date.\u00a0 Over the past few weeks, most major vendors have updated their software.\u00a0 If you run applications from any of the following vendors, you should upgrade that software as soon as you possibly can:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Microsoft Windows<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Mac OS\/X and iOS<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Adobe Reader, Flash, Shockwave, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Mozilla Firefox &amp; Thunderbird<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Google Chrome<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Oracle Java<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Apple Quicktime &amp; Safari<\/p>\n<p>Below are some past, but still very applicable, Security blog articles which discuss keeping your computer software up to date:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2010\/10\/18\/give-your-computer-a-fighting-chance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Give your computer a fighting chance<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2011\/06\/15\/update-your-browser-%E2%80%93-save-your-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update your browser and save your computer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2010\/11\/12\/freshen-up-your-java\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freshen up your java<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As described in one of the articles above, <a title=\"Browsercheck at Qualys\" href=\"http:\/\/browsercheck.qualys.com\" target=\"_blank\">browsercheck.qualys.com<\/a> provides a quick one-stop check for determining your application versions and upgrading them.\u00a0 And, you don&#8217;t have to sign up for anything!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; please!! Besides running up to date Anti-virus, one of the best ways to keep your computer from becoming infected (and then losing access to it while it gets re-imaged, etc.) is to keep your Operating System and applications up to date.\u00a0 Over the past few weeks, most major vendors have updated their software.\u00a0 If you run applications from any of the following vendors, you should upgrade that software as soon as you possibly can: Microsoft Windows Mac OS\/X and iOS Adobe Reader, Flash, Shockwave, etc. Mozilla Firefox &amp; Thunderbird Google Chrome Oracle Java Apple Quicktime &amp; Safari Below are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2012\/03\/12\/update-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update EVERYTHING!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,97,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-pY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}