14 DAY TRIAL // Internet Explorer is becoming quite a headache for Microsoft these days, as the company needs to develop new security patches on a monthly basis in order to keep users fully protected.
This time, Redmond has announced a total of four different security bulletins for Patch Tuesday, one of which is considered to be critical and said to be fixing bugs in Internet Explorer and Windows.
Security experts claim it’s all because of remote code execution vulnerabilities in the browser, with all versions of the app affected by the flaw, starting with the old 6 and ending with the 11, which is now the default program for browsing the web in Windows 8.1.
Last month, Microsoft had to deal with a plethora of flaws in Internet Explorer, so the company rolled out a large update that included fixes for no less than 26 vulnerabilities, including one that had already been made public and which existed in the browser since late last year.
Internet Explorer currently has a market share of approximately 58 percent, according to data provided by market researcher Net Applications, while both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox come next with fewer users.
Microsoft is also working to make Internet Explorer more secure and implement new features, with sources saying that Windows is very likely to bring a brand new version of the browser that would include improvements in terms of security and stability.