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Spyware and Adware

Keep Your Software Updated to Help Protect Yourself

SUMMARY: Anti-malware products must be updated constantly due to new threats.

Keeping your operating system, web browser, and other software updated is one good way to help protect your machine from getting infected by spyware and adware. Many of these threats enter your machine using known exploits. Patching these vulnerabilities with downloadable security patches means the threats will not be able to enter your machine using those means. Note that keeping your software patched only helps protect your machine; it will not completely prevent it from getting infected.

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