Critical Security Update for Microsoft Internet Explorer!

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This question was answered on May 7, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

Many security issues have been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer program that pose a serious problem. The vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to comprimise your system in more ways than one. The patch is a cumulative patch that eliminates four newly discovered vulnerabilities as well as a fix for IE 6.0 SP1 that corrects the way IE displays help information.

Microsoft encourages all customers to review the Security Bulletins to keep optimal security. The risk is considered ‘critical’ which is the highest security breach they have. An attacker could host a malicious web page on a web site that could exploit any particular vulnerability.

Download locations for this patch:

The patches for all Windows systems are available via:

Windows Update

The complete technical details are posted at the Microsoft web site:

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-015.asp"> http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-015.asp</a>

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