A growing number of attacks against an Internet Explorer security flaw prompted Microsoft to publish an early fix that wasn't scheduled to come out until April.
While IE 8 is safe from the under-attack flaw, which affects IE 6 and 7, today's cumulative MS10-018 patch also closes eight other bugs. Some of the other bugs affect IE 8 as well, making this a critical patch for most every combination of Windows and IE. Only Windows Server 2003 with IE 6 or IE 8 or Windows Server 2008 with IE 8 are rated important or moderate. All other combinations are considered critical; see Microsoft's security bulletin for details.
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