IMPORTANT: You first need to check that your installed antivirus program (if any) is compatible with the KB 4056897 patch. That being said, you might wish to wait a while before installing the patch, & check if other users have experienced problems with the patch. Since your OS is Win 7 圆4, you only need to install the 圆4 version (66.9 MB) of KB 4056897 (Meltdown kernel bug patch for Win OS). Microsoft’s KB labelling system is such that all patches addressing the SAME issue wrt Win 7 x32/64 & Win Server 2008 R2 have the same KB label. Windows 10 version 1507: beatbox: “As I use windows 7, 64 bit do I download both of the updates because they both have the same KB number ?”.
The following links point to the Microsoft Update Catalog website where updates can be downloaded manually: Windows 10 users and admins can use Windows Updates to install the out-of-band security updates to affected machines running Windows 10. Internet Explorer 11 patches are available on the Microsoft Update Catalog website as well.
