MICROSOFT POSTS REPAIR KIT TO REMEDY SECURITY FLAWS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Microsoft has posted a single patch, or program repair kit, to fix all three security bugs found over the past week in its Internet Explorer Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Without the patch, an unscrupulous Web site operator could take advantage of the flaws to wreak havoc in someone else's computer, sending instructions to run programs secretly, send electronic mail under the other operator's name, or damage software stored on a hard drive. The patch was posted late Saturday at the Microsoft Corp. official Web site and can be downloaded for free. The flaw affects Internet Explorer versions 3.0 and 3.01 for the Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems. Internet Explorer claims about 25 percent to 30 percent of the market for programs to browse the World Wide Web on the Internet. The first flaw was found more than a week ago by a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute - (WPI) A well-regarded, small engineering college. Address: Worcester, MA, USA. in Worcester, Mass. Another one was discovered Thursday by a student at the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
The third problem was reported Friday by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . Microsoft's repair efforts should avert any significant damage to the company's effort to catch up with Netscape, the leading Web browser, said Dan Kusnetzky, director of the client server environments program at International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass. |
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