Checklist/Table of Contents

Operating System Updates

• Check for OS updates through the App Store
  • This will also have updates for software such as ITunes and Safari

Software Updates

Adobe

• Version 2018, as of 1/18/2018.

Firefox

• Menu → Options → Advanced → Update
• Double check:

  • Change homepage to "about:blank"

  • Under Firefox ->Preferences -> Privacy, select "Tell sites that I do not want to be tracked."

  • Set to remember no history

Microsoft Office

• Run Microsoft Office Updater
• See: Mac Adding/Removing programs for upgrade to MSO 2016
• Run programs in user profile (ex: Public user

Chrome

• Menu
• Double check:
  
  • Homepage to "about:blank"
  • Set to delete all history upon closing browser
  • Set to auto update itself

SCEP

Updates

• Firefox browser (under "About Firefox") --> Updates automatically without prompts
  • To switch to ESR version: 
    • http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/
  • Browser plug ins (Silverlight, flash, etc.)
    • http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
• Adobe Flash Player
• MS Silverlight. If still not signed, you might have to run it from the System Preferences => Security and Privacy => "Click the lock to make changes." => Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere.
  • No need to revert to: Allow apps downloaded from: Mac App Store and identified developers. Just keep it as "Anywhere". (June 6, 2015.)
• And possibly other software
  • Adobe Acrobat, full version. (N.B. Almost no reason to have the read-only Acrobat installed (much less updated) since Mac OS comes with competent PDF reader, Preview.)
  • If Java installed, use Java Control Panel, available through the Java control panel in System Preferences (opens in a separate window).