How to use Vulnerability Repair Tool 2010

How to use Vulnerability Repair Tool 2010

Scanning
To start a scan, go to the Update List tab on the main window and click on the Scan button at the bottom right of the main window. Vulnerability Repair Tool will scan the vulnerabilities and security updates. This process will take a few seconds (usually less than 10 seconds). Once the scan has finished, the program will display the scan results, including summary information (the number of the vulnerabilities and the number of the patches), update list and vulnerability list.

You can choose the display mode of the patches by click on Display as combo box at the right of the main window, for example, if you like to display patches by their category, the patch list looks like this:

If you like to display patches by severity rating of the vulnerabilities, the patch list looks like this:

You can also choose the impact of the vulnerabilities or the language of patches to display. For more detailed information about a patch, you can double click the patch item listed in patch list, and then you can see a popup window named Property, in this window you can see the patch information and vulnerabilities that can be repaired by the patch in full detail. The Property window looks like this:



Repairing
To start the repair process, click on the green Repair button at the bottom right of the main window, then the program will download patches you have selected. Once a patch has been downloaded, Vulnerability Repair Tool will install it right now, and at the same time the other downloads are going on. When the whole repair process has finished, if some patches require a computer restart to complete repair, Vulnerability Repair Tool will display a popup window to ask you to restart your computer.