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Microsoft, 9 patches for Valentine’s Day

Microsoft announces 9 patches coming in on Valentine’s Day, at a resolution of 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Silverlight and .Net Framework.

patches for valentine's day

Microsoft announced in its “Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2012″ that, in the Valentine’s Day, give the love of technology Redmond as nine patches to be installed to correct a total of 21 vulnerabilities in various software of the group.

Four critical patches ready for distribution, five major ones. The patches are most relevant for Microsoft Windows .NET Framework and Internet Explorer: it will probably be a corrective includes more bugs, a strategy that the group has repeatedly reiterated in policy updating the browser.

There are no additional details: the ad is devoted primarily to system administrators, allowing them to plan work in advance without branching news that might facilitate the search for criminals willing to exploit the bug to dangerous exploits.

In the month of January, 7 patches were distributed, one of which is critical and six important. With the update of 14 February (the second Tuesday of the month, as usual) the total will reach five critical patches, about half compared to the previous year.

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