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New tools are becoming available to IT administrators to test patches that protect systems from worms, viruses and other nefarious online malicious code. Computerworld reports that one tool targets specific vulnerabilities in Windows and other products while sitting in front of a server, and another, a memory firewall, runs inside an application’s memory to prevent any activity that’s deemed to be inconsistent with normal behavior. Read more.

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