Still using Internet Explorer? Install KB4040685 to patch many browser vulnerabilities

Internet Explorer is the default browser for many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. If IE is your browser of choice, then you should hurry up and download KB4040685 on your device.

Cumulative Security Update KB4040685 for Internet Explorer brings a series of bug fixes and improvements that will enhance your browser’s security.

The update is available on Windows 7, 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows XP Embedded.

Internet Explorer KB4040685

This security update patches a series of reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. It is worth mentioning that the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer.

Installing the latest updates on your device is of paramount importance if you want to avoid malware attacks. There are many malicious websites and programs waiting to identify and exploit the tinniest vulnerability on your PC.

How to install KB4040685

The fixes that are included in KB4040685 are also included in the October 2017 Security Monthly Quality Rollup. You can download either the Security Update for Internet Explorer or the Security Monthly Quality Rollup to install all the fixes brought by this update.

This update is available through Microsoft Update. You can enable automatic updating to download and install this update automatically. You can also go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website and get the standalone package of KB4040685.

KB4040685 bugs

Before you hit the download button, it is worth mentioning that Internet Explorer 11 package users may receive an error message stating that an application exception has occurred. Microsoft is aware of this issue and will roll out a hotfix as soon as possible.

This app exception error is a common bug affecting almost all the Patch Tuesday updates that Microsoft recently released.

For more information on KB4040685 , go to Microsoft’s Support page.

Direct Download Windows 10 ISO/ESD from official site

Finally Microsoft released Windows 10 publicly for free download on 29th July 2015. It gives free upgrade over genuine version of Windows 7, Window 8/8.1. Microsoft provides two ways to download Windows 10 – using Media Creation Tool and Direct ISO from Microsoft’s site. The media creation tool also allows us to:

• Upgrade PC
• Directly to your USB
• ISO file for later usage

Media creation tool downloads Windows 10 in background and if some error happened in the middle of the download, we need to restart whole download from the beginning. Most of the users like to download files using their favorite download manager with resume support.
So let us see the ways to downloading Official ISO directly using your favorite download manager with resume support. It’s legal to download direct downloading offline ISO from Microsoft’s servers and nothing has been said here as illegal. Here is the official download page:

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 (via Media Creation Tool).
2. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench (Official ISO)

If you are visiting 1st link using either windows 7, 8/8.1, it will give an option to download Windows 10 via Media Creation Tool (since they are upgradable to Windows 10). If you are using Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS or any linux PC, the page divert to Official Offline ISO download page. That is the above said page detects your OS and divert page accordingly. Hence you can try these operating systems or mobile phone to get download link, so that you can download it from PC.
Open above link and you will be have the option to select versions:

• Windows 10
• Windows 10 KN
• Windows 10 N
• Windows 10 Single Language

Each of this ISO file contains Windows 10 Home and Window 10 Pro editions and you can choose which one to be installed during installation. You will get option to select 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) ISO before starting download. Note that each download link is valid for only 24hrs. If the link is expired, then try downloading new ISO, replace old download link with new download link and resume. Most of the download manager tools allows the option to replace download links of partially completed downloads.

Finding direct download link from Media creation Tool
As said above, Media Creation Tool is an online installer, which is slow and resume unsupported. How it would be if you get direct download link for the version you are selecting to download from this Media Creation Tool? Yes, it’s possible with the help of any packet filtering tool such as Wireshark.

This method is not only applicable to with Media Creation tool, but it also helps you to get direct download links from most of the online installer tools. The main advantage of this method is that the downloaded file is in ESD (Electronic Software Download) format and which is around 25% compressed than ISO. It will definitely saves your data usage and time. FYI: The ESD file of OS can be find at C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources, which is in .tmp extension during download.

Steps to find direct download link:

1. Open Wireshark and start capture
2. Run Media Creation Tool, select OS version and start download
3. Apply filter http.request.method == “GET” in Wireshark. It will list all the HTTP request GET from your computer and you can find official link of ISO from them.
4. Click on the packet from the list and expand “Hyper Text Transfer Protocol” and there you will find the request URI as blue coloured.
5. Right Click on it >> Copy >> Value and now you copied the direct download ink of ESD file.
6. Download it with your download manager and use any tool such as ESD Decrypter to convert it into ISO

Watch video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWjd5ecbprg