Microsoft’s monthly security bulletin and the related Patch Tuesday is celebrating its 10th birthday this month, and the most important element of this month’s “anniversary” edition is a major fix for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that made the news in September.
The vulnerability (officially named CVE-2013-3893) is the result of some RCE (Remote Code Execution) bugs, where an outsider can send you something and infect you with malware in any current version of Internet Explorer, including the old IE 6 in Windows XP as well as the very latest IE 11 for those using the Windows 8.1 pre-release.
Some of these bugs are officially branded Critical, which means you should patch it as soon as possible if you don’t want crooks to figure out an unlawful way to your computer. The Internet Explorer update will require you to reboot your computer, so you’d better save your work and prepare for reboot.
As part of the usual Patch Tuesday routine, the Malicious Software Removal Tool has been updated and is also available on our SoftwarePatch website for 32-bit Windows 7 and 64-bit Windows versions. Don’t be scared if you see MRT.exe running on your computer with high CPU usage – this is perfectly normal and it is crucial to run this time of the month.
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