Microsoft Patches: Seven at one stroke

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Already on February 14 heise.de reported about Microsoft's release of seven security updates. Two of these updates fix security holes that are labelled critical.

Thus a critical WMF-hole under Windows 2000 in connection with the Internet Explorer 5.01 was fixed, heise.de writes. The second critical update related to the Windows Media Player Version 7 or higher under Windows 2000, Windows XP to Windows Server 2003.

An error in Office 2003 under Windows XP (SP1) and Windows Server 2003 will also be fixed with these updates. Another related to Microsoft's presentation program PowerPoint 2000. This security hole allows unauthorized users to access known files via the internet.

According to heise experts it is to be expected that after the publication of details concerning these security holes exploits will appear on the internet. Therefore, these Microsoft updates should be uploaded as soon as possible, i.e. by manually downloading the update.

Source: heise.de