Version: 2008

Comments on: Prevent infection by updating your applications

These days, malware is as likely to target your media players and other programs as it is to look for holes in Windows.

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by titch1313 April 25, 2009 9:03 AM PDT
i have some one trying to get into my p.c
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by hi_magrebi April 25, 2009 9:52 AM PDT
Great to know ;)
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by dirtybirdphoenix May 4, 2009 4:31 AM PDT
if you trust filehippo.com it has an update checker. it only checks the programs it has on it's site but if you use it with secunia psi it works great, i haven't had any issues with psi, you have to uninstall old versions of java manually to get them off your system, they aren't uninstalled automatically, psi tells you that. the flash you had was probably part of another program like bejewelled, if you had checked the file location you might have noticed that
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