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Sailing In A Leaky Ship

SAILING IN A LEAKY SHIP

     If you use INTERNET EXPLORER as your browser, you are sailing in a leaky ship. This section will tell you how to patch the holes in that leaky ship. You see, criminal hackers are constantly looking for holes in the code “armor” of all Microsoft products, but especially INTERNET EXPLORER. As soon as they find a hole, they attack your computer through that hole, silently infecting it with viruses or spyware. You do not even have to visit a dangerous site for this to happen. Hackers lurk in popular sites like MySpace and YouTube, nailing computers using an unpatched version of Internet Explorer. Vista is a safer version of Windows than its predecessors, but it gets attacked too.

     On the second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft releases patches for the latest holes. Innocent souls might say, "Well, that takes care of it. The hole is patched." Not so. Most of the hundreds of criminal hackers don't know about a hole until Microsoft patches it! As soon as they hear about the patch, they immediately attack the people who haven't gotten that patch. A criminal hanging around a popular site like YouTube may actually nail hundreds of unpatched computers on a Sunday afternoon!

     If you don't have automatic patches - or if you're not sure whether you do - hasten right now to the site below and sign up. Automatic patches are free, and they'll save you from a nasty experience. You'll also want to see that the kids' computer is patched. Criminal hackers target kids' sites. You'll find your free Microsoft automatic patches here:

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/automatic.mspx
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