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Microsoft Weekly Security Release
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-17
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Microsoft released their monthly security patch on Tuesday and it included seven security bulletins. The bulletins varied and cover a number of different problems. Two of those bulletins were rated critical and five were rated as important.
Here's a quick run down from Microsoft's Security Response Center Blog:
So, we've released seven Security Bulletins today. Real quick, I wanted to give you an overview of them.
* MS06-004 only applies to IE5.01 SP4 and is rated as Critical.
* MS06-005 is rated critical and applies to Windows Media Player on Microsoft Windows.
* MS06-006 is rated Important and affects the Windows Media Player plug-in when used with Non-Microsoft Internet Browsers.
* MS06-007 is rated Important Denial of Service vulnerability in and IGMP v3 in TCP/IP.
* MS06-008 is rated Important and addresses a vulnerability in Webclient.
* MS06-009 is rated Important and affects Korean Language Input Method Editor (IME). Note that this only affects Korean Language systems and systems with East Asian Language Support installed.
* MS06-010 is rated Important and affects PowerPoint 2000 only.
With all the problems going around right now, the best solution is to make sure your software is current, whether you run Windows, OS X or any software for that matter. As a rule, the current updates are the best solution to the problems.
About the Author:
John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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