hot fix

[jack beans]

i dotn know anything about windows xp. but what is a
windows xp hotfix? i see these under my program list but
what the heck are they?

 

[gezerglide]

Software "patches" to fix security flaws.

 

[Matt]

These are patches for security exploits. They are called
hot fixes as they are meant to quickly fix your system so
that it is not expoited by a malitious user.