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6 Critical Patches on Patch Tuesday
Techtree News Staff, Nov 15, 2006 1224 hrs ISTMicrosoft has released six "critical" security patches on 'Patch Tuesday' yesterday, out of which five have got highest threat rating.
Microsoft, as part of its monthly security bulletin, has released six "critical" security patches on 'Patch Tuesday' yesterday, out of which five have got highest threat rating.
The company said these five critical updates address vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to get remote access to and take control of a user's computer.
Out of the five, three critical updates affect Windows XP, the latest version of Microsoft's Windows operating system; while the fourth one affects Internet Explorer and Windows 2000, and is considered a low threat to users running Windows XP.
Whereas, the fifth critical update affects Microsoft's XML Core Services package, which software developers use to build certain applications.
In addition, Microsoft has rated the sixth update as an important patch for users of both Windows 2000 and XP, and a moderate threat for users of its Windows Server 2003 software.
Meanwhile, the latest patches can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/security.
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