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July Brings 3 'Critical' Patches
Techtree News Staff, Jul 11, 2007 2042 hrs ISTThe 'critical' patches address flaws in the .NET Framework, Microsoft Excel, and the Windows Active Directory...
This month's 'Patch Tuesday' yesterday reportedly saw Microsoft releasing 6 patches, out of which 3 have been rated as 'critical' by the company.
The 3 'critical' patches address flaws in the .NET Framework, Microsoft Excel, and the Windows Active Directory that could become potential means for hackers to infect vulnerable systems with hostile code.
The first of Microsoft's 6 patches reads 'critical', and fixes a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, which could allow hackers break into a PC if they opened an infected spreadsheet.
The second patch is again 'critical' and addresses holes in the .NET Framework, which is a massive computer code library -- part of Windows Vista, as well as versions of Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.
Whereas, Microsoft's third 'critical' patch is intended to prevent attacks on Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003.
As per some security experts, the patch for the .NET Framework is most significant, the reason being it addresses flaws that could affect virtually every application running on nearly all operating systems currently supported by Microsoft.
Next in importance, experts say, is the patch for Excel since it fixes a vulnerability that has potential for creation of malware.
The remaining 3 of the total 6 patches released have been awarded less urgent security ratings by Microsoft. They are targeted at the firewall built into Windows Vista, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, and Windows XP Professional respectively.
Those who wish to download the patches may visit Microsoft's security Web site. Alternately, they can sign-up for automatic security updates.
The 3 'critical' patches address flaws in the .NET Framework, Microsoft Excel, and the Windows Active Directory that could become potential means for hackers to infect vulnerable systems with hostile code.
The first of Microsoft's 6 patches reads 'critical', and fixes a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, which could allow hackers break into a PC if they opened an infected spreadsheet.
The second patch is again 'critical' and addresses holes in the .NET Framework, which is a massive computer code library -- part of Windows Vista, as well as versions of Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.
Whereas, Microsoft's third 'critical' patch is intended to prevent attacks on Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003.
As per some security experts, the patch for the .NET Framework is most significant, the reason being it addresses flaws that could affect virtually every application running on nearly all operating systems currently supported by Microsoft.
Next in importance, experts say, is the patch for Excel since it fixes a vulnerability that has potential for creation of malware.
The remaining 3 of the total 6 patches released have been awarded less urgent security ratings by Microsoft. They are targeted at the firewall built into Windows Vista, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, and Windows XP Professional respectively.
Those who wish to download the patches may visit Microsoft's security Web site. Alternately, they can sign-up for automatic security updates.
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