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Locking the worms out of your network

The area that should be of most concern is user education. Unless you have an automated method in place to keep everything updated, you will need to enlist the users help in making sure that all of the Windows updates are installed on a regular basis. If you are also using the Microsoft Office Suite of applications, there are updates that need to be applied here as well. Fortunately, recent changes to the way that Microsoft's Windows Update site works has helped streamline this process so that both Windows and Office updates are downloaded at the same time.

If you current anti-virus solution doesn't have a central management console, I would strongly suggest that you look at moving to this kind of solution as soon as time and money permits. Although anti-virus updates should be automated at the workstation level, a central management console that alerts you to problem PCs will prove well worth the cost.

Even with a firewall protecting your network, personal firewalls for each PC may be worth considering - especially if you have workers who bring in or e-mail material from home, where the PCs may not be as well protected. Locking the worms out of your network

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