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Old 07-11-2009, 05:58 AM
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Microsoft lastly Patches ActiveX

As usual on the upcoming patch Tuesday next week, Microsoft will publish a series of important patches to repair security vulnerabilities; it is the most popular Windows PC operating system. But this time, the company is more than a little attention to its use of the patch release schedules. Three new "critical" security patch for Windows will have an impact on part of the patch package will be available on Tuesday, and three "important" patches, and other Microsoft products - Press, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and Virtual PC and Virtual Server. The impact of machine patches Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, the basis of a detailed warning of the patch.

If your computer is set up to automatically receive the recommendations of Microsoft's patch upgrade, and then you should be in the absence of any intervention to repair a part of. One of these patches for security vulnerabilities impact Microsoft computer video ActiveX controls to run Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, but have been waiting for quite a long time. It appears that the first report of the problem can be traced back to early 2008.

The issue of the first report of an increase of Our customers have been some problems when we have received the first report of the security vulnerabilities and how to take long-term investigation of the outbreak of relative vulnerability to attack of the report wrote," Microsoft spokesman Mike in the Microsoft Security Response Center blog item yesterday.

"When I go into the details, the most critical is the customer I would like to have to realize that this is a problem, is a responsible report to us that we have in our standard driver implements a security update," actually wrote. "Although in this process, the attacker found this loophole and began to attack it. We are far from enough, we can provide information, customers can use it to protect their temporary while we complete this investigation, and to provide a security update, you can deploy a wide range of trust.

Received the first report in 2008:

It is interesting to note here is the first report of the consumer of the security vulnerabilities of the ActiveX control in the spring of 2008, Microsoft said, and this all is just around the now repaired. This is more than a full year.

The reasons for the vulnerability are fixed, because it can allow an attacker in the victim's computer on the Internet users log on, if the owner of the computer browsing a malicious website. However, despite the risk, more than a year had passed a patch.
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