Microsoft Releases Long-Awaited Internet Explorer Patch
Microsoft today released its security software patches for April, addressing an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer that hackers had been exploiting for several weeks.
As expected, the company released five patches, called "updates" in Microsoft parlance, addressing a number of critical vulnerabilities in IE and Windows. Microsoft also released an update for Outlook Express, rated "important," and a fix for Windows FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint Team Services 2002, rated "moderate." Here's a description of what Microsoft released.
In Microsoft's rating system, the most serious vulnerabilities are rated "critical," meaning they could allow unauthorized software to be installed without user action. The "critical" designation is followed by "important," and then "moderate."
