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Microsoft Corporation issued 9 security updates on February 14, 2012 that are intended to patch 21 weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, .Net, Silverlight, and Sharepoint Server. Drive-by attacks can'take advantage of several of the glitches. 4 of the 9 updates were marked “critical” or the highest threat ranking available; the other 5 updates were classified as “important”. Of the 21 weaknesses listed by Microsoft, 6 were deemed to be “critical”, 14 as “important” and one as “moderate”.

Both independent security experts and Microsoft representatives encouraged users to employ updates MS12-010 to fix vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and MS12-013 to provide 1-patch updates to Windows Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 that addresses the vulnerability in the C Run-Time Library that could result in remote code execution.