Microsoft has the unusual step of issuing an unscheduled update on Thursday for vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer browser, which conducted a role in the recent computer attacks that Google is threatening to leave China played.
The updates are available for all supported versions of Internet Explorer from IE 5.01 to the latest IE 8th
People who will set their computer to install security updates, you automatically receive the update. PC users should not automatically updates go www.microsoft.com / security to download the patch.Microsoft said it learned of the problems last autumn and was already planning to publish the updates in February. In the past week confirmed that the attacks of Google Inc. have described here the same mistakes.
Hackers can use people to Web sites with malicious code, then use the browser to lure error page to their computers. Attackers in China may have used the vulnerability to break into the e-mail accounts from human rights activists who oppose the Chinese government. Hackers could have used this flaw to break into their networks, including Google's and that of other large companies such as Yahoo and Juniper Networks Inc.
Microsoft security patches released rare outside the regular, once a month update cycle, it is known to rush patches for so-called "zero day" uses, in which hackers attack a software hole before it has a chance to find a fix. The last time, broke from the Microsoft security update schedule was published in July 2009.
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