It’s that time again–time to get your patches on, and to do so quickly. Microsoft yesterday hosted the biggest Patch Tuesday event of the young year when it posted 12 security fixes for 20 security flaws in its products. Seven of the patches addressed zero-day flaws that have been used to launch attacks across the Internet in recent weeks, and there was even a patch fixing Microsoft’s security tools, which could have automatically triggered the exploit with no interaction from the user.

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Yes, you have probably read it before on different news sites and blogs. An ad on MySpace spread spyware. As reports have mentioned, the banner ad was the one used to spread it. For Windows users who did not get the patches, they were affected by it as it was a WMF vulnerability that was exploited. Average computer users would probably be the ones who were greatly affected by this and they probably did not even notice anything.

There are articles that even mention the other browser, which is Mozilla Firefox. They said that those who use it were probably not affected by it unless the user downloaded the WMF file and opened it on their computers that are running on Windows. It is mainly something that affects Windows users who browse using Internet Explorer.

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