Hotfix

"Hotfix" in a Sentence (2 examples)

When you extract the files in a hotfix, you'll generally find the following.

For example, the IIS 3.0 denial-of-service attacks that brought down Microsoft's web site several times in 1997 quickly led to the release of a hotfix.

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