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A Patch for an IE Patch

Microsoft late last week released an out-of-cycle patch for IE that fixes a hole in Vector Markup Language (VML) that could let a hacker control your machine. Microsoft last month sent out the original IE patch, but tweaked it to deal with the VML problem. So I guess it's a patch for a patch.

Posted by Doug Barney on September 02, 2008


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