Keeping your computer's operating patched has become nearly automatic for most computers these days. You must block updates if you want to keep them from happening. How about the applications on your computer? Do you update them? Only a few applications, such as web browsers, get updated automatically or inform you that updates are available. For this week's Discussion Board, run an audit on your computer's applications to determine when they were last updated. How were they updated? Were they automatically updated, or did you have to take steps to update them?