Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 2001/12

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] virus warning (and moan)
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:07:15 -0500

If you're running Windows 98 or above you should have a selection under the
Start menu that says "Windows Update". When you're online & connected to the
Internet, click that button. It'll take you to the Microsoft Update page.
Click on Product Updates. That'll check your machine and then present a list
of "suggested" updates. At the very least install all the security patches.

There's a similar thing on my Mac (I haven't turned the Mac boot part on for
a while - I run Linux on it mostly - so I don't remember the exact steps)
and the newer versions of RedHat Linux have the program up2date which will
download & install patches and updates. Mandrake Linux has something
similar, as does SuSE. I don't know about the others.

Mark C.

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