It’s a great way to stop malware from even having a place to take hold and will go a long way in keeping you protected. It’s very effective, but wouldn’t you rather just repair the fence and not have to sit around in the middle of the night telling Max to stay on his side of the fence? Patching and updating are like repairing the fence. To expand our analogy, think of security software as me standing in my back yard telling Max he can’t come in. Now typically, malware is stopped by security software. They find loose boards (bugs) and mess around until they find a way (malware) to get through. My next door neighbor’s dog “Max” found a loose board in the fence between our yards and literally nosed around until he found a way to push the board aside and get through. Think of a bug as broken board in a fence. Bugs (error in software code) might make your application crash or behave strangely, but they are also taken advantage of by malware writers to infect your device. Why do I obsess over updates? One word: bugs. I don’t want to go on for too long, so I thought I’d narrow it down to one of the top 3 things you can do to live safe online: updating everything. Instead of flooding Twitter with my contributions to this effort, I’m writing a longer form post so I can go into a more detail. We thought it would be a great way to share some tips from the McAfee family about what we, as security professionals, do to stay safe online. You may have seen #HowILiveSafe floating around on Twitter.
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