Commonsense Preventive Measures

We've reached a good time to point out some commonsense preventive measures to provide basic security for your machine. They don't guarantee the safety of your machine, of course, but they provide good basic guidelines for you. These commonsense activities apply not only to Mac OS X, but also to any other operating system.

The commonsense preventive security measures that you should always keep in mind are

  • Keep your operating system current. You can easily do this by setting Software Update to a regular update schedule. If you prefer not to have Software Update check for updates automatically, make sure that you check Apple's website regularly for any updates and subsequently run Software Update. This is perhaps ...

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