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Six bulletins in total, including the four critical fixes, will be released, according to Microsoft's advance advisory notification.
"Critical" is the most severe ranking Microsoft assigns to security flaws. That classification typically indicates that a system can be compromised remotely with little interaction required by the user.
Specifically, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003, IE 5.01 running on Windows 2000 with SP4, Outlook Express and Windows Mail in Vista are among the affected software.
Ironically, Microsoft has touted Vista as its most secure version of Windows to date, but even last April the software giant had to issue an emergency update that fell out of its usual monthly patch cycle.
The security update is designed to address Windows Mail in Windows Vista and Windows Vista x64.
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You have to remember what MS is comparing Vista too, their previous operating systems. They aren't comparing Vista to other more secure operating systems....
When you have 86% of the OS market, you're going to have alot of hackers trying to crack your system. More than anyone else. Apple issues patches as well just not as many because there's no money in cracking 4% of the market.
OSes are not ever going to be 100% crack proof no matter who makes them.
End of story.