(13-Jan-10) Good patching procedures and outbound firewall rules will go far in protecting your organization from botnets, but hackers are now targeting Adobe Acrobat, the Symbian mobile operating system and other software. How to protect yourself from the threats of 2010 So you keep all of your anti-virus software and firewall signatures up to date. If you’re a Microsoft Corp. shop, you download and install updates as soon as you get the alerts. You don’t give your users more administrator rights than they actually need. If you do all of this, do you actually have anything to worry about? It depends on who you ask.