The Security Mentor

Here's a tool you really want to have. The respected security organization SANS has published a program to look through your computer and find programs that need to be updated for the security problem I mentioned last time. It's not just Internet Explorer that's affected. You may need to update Microsoft Office applications. When you go to Windows Update, Microsoft gives you a scanning tool to do the same thing, but the word in the security community is that it doesn't work well.

Here's a link for the free download of the scanning tool for the JPEG vulnerability.

Meantime, a firewall won't protect you against this particular problem but freshly updated antivirus software should.