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- Keep the most vulnerable applications up-to-date. This includes Adobe, Acrobat, Flash, and RealPlayer. These applications are known to be vulnerable to attacks so keeping them patched greatly decreases the risk of computers being infected.
- Important and high applications, like internet browsers and operating systems (for example, Mac OS X and Windows 7) should also be kept up-to-date. Since they are common and frequently used, these types of applications are frequent targets for attacks.
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Administering Targeted Patches
If you have not used the console before, see the Getting Started with LANDesk and Installing the LANDesk Console pages. Once you have the LANDesk console installed, log in using your Tufts credentials.
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If you select "Repair as Scheduled Task" also select "Don't add any computers." If you select "Repair as Policy," you may choose to add a query (these represent different groups of users within your scope). When you have finished, select OK.
You will be redirected to a window showing you "Scheduled Tasks." If you did not add a query in the last step, to add computers to this task you can drag and drop devices from those listed in your scope. Click "Scope," then double click the scope you wish to open, then select the computers from your scope that you would like to target. To highlight multiple names from your scope, click shift or control and then select the names. When you have selected the computers, drag them to the task. A yellow "Pending" bar should appear on the graph. This will resolve into a "Successful" or "Failed" bar depending on the outcome of the repair.
The patch may take some time to resolve; you can check back later to make sure the task resolved to "Successful."