Microsoft patches a critical bug that affected Windows systems since Windows 95

Microsoft has patched a critical flaw on its popular Operating System Windows that has been their for 19 years dating back during the days of Windows 95. The bug was discovered by IBM earlier this year and it had privately informed the Redmond giant about the bug last May. Microsoft included the patch on its regular update roll out and Windows users should have them once the system install the latest update.

The system flaw was sitting there for a long time despite Microsoft’s constant bug fixes on the same Windows library according to IBM Researcher Robert Freeman. The bug can be triggered remotely allowing hackers to execute codes on the affected machine just by simply requesting the user to visit a page through Internet Explorer, and as you may know, Internet Explorer has been bundled on every Windows version starting with Windows 95 and onward, so the rare bug is basically on every system up to the latest build of Windows 8.1 the most.

As far as system support is concerned, Microsoft patches Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7, Vista and their server derivatives on regular cycles. Older systems on the other hand will be out of luck as Microsoft had already terminated their support on these system with the last legacy OS to have ended its support was Windows XP which has ended early this year. Our sources suggests that at the moment, no one was able to exploit the bug on any version of Windows but still the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) has given the bug a score of 9.3 out of 10, so it’s worth the time to install the patch through Windows Update which shouldn’t be a headache to do.

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