Microsoft Security Patches to be released; Next Window threatened already

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On Tuesday, Aug. 9th, Microsoft's monthly patch day the Redmond-based software giant will release six security related updates and patches for its Windows operating system.

Microsoft announced that one of the patches will be rated 'critical' and users will need to restart machines to complete installation. Security issues that will be fixed also involve Microsoft's integrated web browser Internet Explorer.

German IT-publisher heise.de, adds that it likely that some flaws in the Windows system will remain unpatched since the list of reported problems clearly is longer than six.

Meanwhile the next Windows version, Windows Vista - formerly called Longhorn - has been threatened already by malicious code, although the new operating system' official release is 2006.

First viruses have recently appeared which target Microsoft technology that may replace DOS-Command Line in Microsoft Vista. Although Security experts maintain that the existence of these newly discovered viruses do not represent an indication that Vista has security problems, experts also consider them 'a whole new breed of malware, [which] shows how quickly virus writers can find and exploit vulnerabilities. We'll likely see some virus writers writing the first Vista viruses just to show off. The real worrisome stuff will follow later'

Sources: technewsworld.com, heise.de