Microsoft issues special update for critical Windows vulnerability

An update for a vulnerability in the Microsoft Font Driver – present in all supported versions of Windows – was released yesterday by Microsoft. Normally, updates like this are released as part of the monthly Patch Tuesday process, but Microsoft evidently decided that this vulnerability was serious enough to warrant this ‘out of band’ update.

Windows systems with Automatic Updates enabled will receive this update automatically. All other systems should be updated via Windows Update as soon as possible.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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