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The introductory article on patch management can be found here.
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K1000 Patch Management
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The K1000 is only for Carleton-owned computers. |
The K1000 receives patches from Lumension , a security company. These patches which are then delivered to campus computers. Patches in the K1000 are security related patches only. Feature related patches and upgrades are not available from K1000 patch managementas Kpatches.
What patches are delivered by the K1000?
The K1000 delivers security-based patches for the following applications:
- 7-Zip (Windows)
- ABViewer (Windows)
- Adobe AIR
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Adobe Reader§Reader
- Adobe Flash Player (on Windows, ActiveX and plugin)§Adobe Shockwave Player
- Apache OpenOffice (macOS)
- Apple iCloud (Windows)
- Apple iTunes (Windows)Apple QuickTime
- Audacity
- Box Sync (Windows)Apple Safari web browser
- Camtasia
- CCleaner (Windows)
- Audacity CDBurnerXP (Windows)
- Citrix Receiver (Windows)
- DatabaseSpy (Windows)
- DiffDog (Windows)
- Dropbox (Windows)
- Evernote
- Fetch (macOS)
- FileZilla Client (Windows)
- Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF (Windows)
- Gimp
- Google Chrome
- Google Earth (Windows)
- GoToMeeting (Windows)
- HipChat (macOS)
- Google Earth ImgBurn (Windows)
- Inkscape
- join.me (Windows)Microsoft
- Silverlight and Remote Desktop (MacKeePass Password Safe (Windows)
- LibreOffice
- Microsoft Office (Mac)
- MindManager (Windows)
- Mozilla Firefox (consumer version)§
- Mozilla Firefox ESR§ESR (Windows only)
- Notepad++ (Windows)
- Opera
- Oracle Java (Java Runtime Engine, or JRE)§
- Paint.NET (Windows)
- PDFCreator (Windows)
- Pidgin (Windows)
- Putty (Windows)
- Python 3 (macOS)
- RealPlayer (Windows)
- RealVNC (Windows)
- RingCentral Meetings (Windows)
- SeaMonkey
- Skype for Business (macOS)
- Slack (macOS)
- SnagIt (Windows)
- TeamViewer
- Thunderbird
- TightVNC (Windows)
- TortoiseSVN (Windows)
- UltraVNC (Windows)
- VideoLAN VLC media player
- VMWare Fusion (macOS)
- VMWare Horizon Client (macOS)
- VMWare Tools (Windows)
- VMWare Fusion, Player, WorkstationWinZip and 7-Zip Player (Windows)
- VMWare Workstation (Windows)
- WinRAR (Windows)
- WinSCP (Windows)
- WinZip Courier (Windows)
- WireShark and WinPCap (Windows)
- Zoom Meetings (Windows)
(§ are frequently exploited, and so are considered critical)
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- In the power management settings on your computer, disable the computer's sleep mode entirely (but this wastes energy).
- In the power management settings in your computer operating system or BIOS, schedule the computer to wake up about 20 minutes before patching is scheduled to start.
- Launch a "keep awake" utility on your computer when you leave, so it never becomes inactive and so never sleeps. For Windows, we have had good results with a free utility called Caffeine, from Zhorn Software.
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The introductory article on patch management can be found here.