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Two of the security bulletins apply to Windows, and at least one of them is deemed "critical," Microsoft's highest risk rating, the company said in a notice posted on its Web site Thursday. Its Office productivity suite will get one bulletin, also rated critical.
The notice did not specify whether one of the patches will be for Internet Explorer. Microsoft earlier this week offered a workaround for a known flaw in the Web browser that opens the door for intruders to crash IE and to run arbitrary code.
Microsoft said it will also issue a "high-priority" update for Office that is unrelated to security on Tuesday. In addition, that day is tagged for the release of an updated version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which detects and removes malicious code placed on computers, the company said.
The company gave no further information on Thursday's bulletins, other than stating that some of the Windows fixes will require restarting the computer, as may the Office update.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant provides information in advance of its monthly patch release day, which is every second Tuesday of the month, so people can prepare to install the patches. In June, Microsoft released 10 security bulletins.
It rates as critical any security issue that could allow a malicious Internet worm to spread without any action required on the part of the user.
Microsoft has set a time of Wednesday at 11 a.m. PDT to host a Webcast about the new fixes.
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Software is damn hard to get perfect.
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- by July 7, 2005 1:30 PM PDT
- god all I ever see and hear from M$ is fix fix fix. when are they going to stop haveing crap ass software.
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- This is when...
- by ca2kjet July 7, 2005 3:03 PM PDT
- When crap ass people stop breaking it.
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- As soon as
- by Sboston July 7, 2005 4:33 PM PDT
- Everyone does. Did you see the story on the zlib open source component?
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(8 Comments)Software is damn hard to get perfect.