Hopefully you have your Windows machine set to receive updates automatically? But do you ever check that updates are actually downloaded, and installed and what about third party software?
Well, this tip is an oldie, but still quite good and worth a mention;
Secunia (a very skilled security company) offer several products for evaluating your Software readiness (ranging from corporate products to free online personal scanners).
Check it out at (at the very least do an online scan);
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/
CNet also offers a new product called TechTracker which more or less does the same thing;
http://www.cnet.com/techtracker/?tag=mncol;pm
Have you ever had a machine BSD (blue screen) on you? and have you ever felt helpless in understanding why and what the problem is?
Well here is a Freeware product that can give you a little insight or at least give you ample time to read and analyze the BSD info. It analyzes the minidump file that is generated on BSD..
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
If you have a SA agreement with MS as part of your license, then you have access to yet another utility via “Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance” Crash Analyzer Wizard.. But as mentioned this require a SA agreement.
