Tag: Windows

Windows has made to plug its users for quick access to various programs and software. Recent researches have laid the fact that Microsoft itself intimates its users about the upcoming apprehensions. The users have always got the quick access to the weakness whenever involved. However, the company doesn’t believe in exposing to deliver and fix the band updates. A chief technology officer Wolfgang Kandek at Qualys has said the above statement about the Microsoft Company. He is a compliance management provider. He has laid down in his report that zero-day-bug is actually a driver, which exists for faster plugging for any liabilities. He found that plugging speed of few Microsoft updates which addresses zero number of days in the Internet Explorer was same, whether the issuing periods of both of them differ. The researches have also pointed out the reason that media coverage is the prime reason of the faster patching of Microsoft bugs by the users. Microsoft has to release the security bulletins MS10-018. It is a critical rated update and includes 10patches. It affects mainly all the versions of Internet Explorer and also includes current zero-day-bug. It used to attack the browsers such as IE6 and IE7. It actually reduces it to its “half life”. Later, he described “half life” as the 50% point, up till where machines are patched.