Windows Security Patches Windows Security Patches 
ITS sends email to campus department security representatives when Microsoft issues a security patch for Windows. CSS installs those patches as soon as possible on college-administered Windows computers. If you have a Windows computer that you administer either in the college or at home, you must install such patches yourself. Rather than send email each time there is a new security update, please read this page regularly and update your computer with the patches mentioned on the Microsoft site. Microsoft publishes patches and information about them the second Tuesday of each month.
At the same site, Microsoft also publishes patches for Office; those should be installed regularly also.
Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to install the patches. You must be running Internet Explorer to connect to this site.
The Microsoft Security page or the Security At Home page list all security bulletins issued.
Click on each bulletin link to get information about the bulletin such as its severity (critical, important, moderate, low) and to link to the update site. With the November 2006 patches you get IE 7, the newest version of Microsoft's browser.
The ITS Security office publishes information about Windows security patches, viruses, and other security issues. Read about recent notices; this page is accessible only on campus.
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