Computer Design & Repair

140 Portage Trail Suite 208
Cuyahoga Falls 44221

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Computer Design & Repair is a computer repair & services company targeting the home & office information technology field in the Summit County area, while offering web hosting & software development opportunity world wide. When founded in 2003, our outlook was simply for offering computer repair services. In only 5 short years, we've grown to unexpected proportions. Currently our office is located in downtown Cuyahoga Falls, to better serve residence in Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Tallmadge, & also the greater Akron area. While we support all makes & models of name brand PCs, we can also build customer specific systems. We offer both on-site & drop off repair service. Please, feel free to give us a call today. (330)929.2600

Acting with record speed, Microsoft has issued a patch for the just-announced security flaw that impacts all recent versions of Internet Explorer, from version 5 to the latest betas of IE 8. The next security update had not been due from the company until January 13, making this a very rare occurrence.

Getting the update is easy.

With any version of Windows, just run Windows Update, which you'll find in IE's Tools menu or in the Windows Start menu under "All Programs." Vista users can just type "Windows Update" in the Start menu search box to pull it up, then click "Check for updates" on the left side of the window. Either an Express or Custom run of Windows Update will find the patch.

The patch will appear as a "High-priority update" named "Security Update for Internet Explorer" followed by your version number. It will auto-select, so just click "Install Updates" to continue. A reboot will be required when the small update (only a few MB) is finished. (Grab any other security-oriented updates you see while you're there.)

It's a good idea after installing the patch to make sure your anti-malware software is updated and then to run a full scan on your system, just to make sure nothing sneaked in while you were unpatched. After that, you should be ready to go.

To learn more about what's being patched, check out this Microsoft Knowledge Base entry.