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MJOLNIR MJOLNIR is offline
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      04-15-2012
May sound like a silly question but...I have a full-fledged AV on my system, but, apparently if I don't install Microsoft security updates on my system every now and then via Windows Updates...my system will be vulnerable? I thought the AV was supposed to deal with all kinds of e-threats.

My impression is that the updates deal with some things that the AV doesn't. What would those be?

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      04-15-2012
There are viruses and there are exploits. An exploit takes advantage of a weakness in the code of your browser, your word processor, your flashplayer, etc to allow access to your machine. The updates are designed to close some of these exploits.
 
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      04-15-2012
New version of Flash Player was released Thursday. Java is supposed to be getting a update on Tuesday. Adobe Flash Player link : http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Oracle's Java link: http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
 
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      04-22-2012
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New version of Flash Player was released Thursday. Java is supposed to be getting a update on Tuesday. Adobe Flash Player link : http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Oracle's Java link: http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
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      04-22-2012
No AV program blocks or detects everything.P.S. Flash did get updated. Apparently Oracle patched everything, except Java.
 
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      04-23-2012
That just sounded like an update of some sort for compatibility and not anything security-related.
 
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