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Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of March 2016

March 28th, 2016 at 1:18 pm » Comments (0)

  Hello everyone, It's a jungle out there! The Oracle patch for Java is an emergency, so go for it as soon as possible. Exploits are present for Safari and Flash so ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of February 2016

February 28th, 2016 at 7:38 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, An unpatched machine is an "accident waiting to happen". Here are your latest third party updates. Please update as soon as possible and avoid "getting bit". Opera 35.0 24 February 2016 The ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of January 2016

January 26th, 2016 at 12:22 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, Third party programs must be patched every month in order to keep your computer safe from malicious entities. Third party software is blamed for 76% of vulnerabilities on the ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of November 2015

November 25th, 2015 at 11:06 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Unpatched third party programs will open up your system to malicious attacks. Each month (at a minimum), you should check for third party updates in order to keep your ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of October 2015

October 31st, 2015 at 9:05 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, Third-party applications are the most important source of vulnerabilities with over 80% of the reported vulnerabilities in third-party applications. Operating systems are only responsible for 13% of vulnerabilities and ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of September 2015

September 28th, 2015 at 9:47 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, Time to update once again. This month we have three Adobe programs, two browsers, and Apple iTunes. If these programs are not updated, your machine becomes much more vulnerable ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of August 2015

September 6th, 2015 at 9:42 pm » Comments (0)

Hello everyone, Malicious entities are trying to get into your computer in any way that they can. If they can't find "holes" in the Operating System then they will attack the ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of July 2015

August 17th, 2015 at 8:43 pm » Comments (1)

Hello everyone, I'm a bit late on this, but here they are: The Third Party Updates For The Month Of July 2015. Get updated as soon as possible! Key: Identifier, Vendor/Product, Product ...more »

My Recipe For Comcast Wireless Success

June 26th, 2015 at 10:38 pm » Comments (4)

Hello everyone, I have been getting many comments/questions about Comcast wireless connectivity (see two previous posts here and here). Here is my "quick and dirty" recipe for Comcast wireless sucess: 1) Disable ...more »

Third Party Program Updates For The Month Of June 2015

June 22nd, 2015 at 9:31 pm » Comments (3)

Hello everyone, Patch time again everybody! As always Adobe Flash and Adobe Air have many vulnerabilities that could open you up to arbitrary code execution. The updated Google Chrome browser includes ...more »