The new year (or new month) is a good time to remember to update your system software. Microsoft puts out regular software updates, and it's fairly easy to install them. If you do so regularly you will keep your computer safe from all sorts of bad things.

Instructions for updating the system software on a Windows computer may be found here
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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats