The Redmond giant plans to issue 11 security updates next Tuesday which is earlier than the normal Patch Tuesday after hackers started to exploit the bug in Internet Explorer's Vector Markup Language rendering engine. More attacks could also occur as there are also unpatched flaws in PowerPoint, Word 2000 and in an ActiveX control
(called WebViewFolderIcon) used by the Windows' graphical user interface software. The updates for next week consist of six for for Windows and four for Office. The last is for Microsoft's .Net Framework, which is a less severe bug.11 Microsoft Security Patches in October 2006 Rollout source
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