Monday, February 11, 2008

Patch Tuesday

Windows Users

Today, Tuesday, February 12, is another Patch Tuesday. Make sure that you update any Microsoft software that you have on your computer within the next week. Most of you probably have this set up to happen automatically. But you can verify that the patches have been installed by running the Windows Update program.

This month Microsoft has released some 12 patches, 7 of which are reported to be critical. 
Pretty much every application has a patch: Office, Internet Explorer, Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

More can be read about these patches at:
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=9524

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