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Windows kernel bug enabling drive-by web virus fixed

news.cnet.com — November's Patch Tuesday features fixes for holes in Windows, Excel, and Word, and a critical one affecting the Windows kernel that could be used in drive-by download attacks on Web surfers. Desktop & Server Windows OS released from 2000-2008 vulnerable. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on InSecurity Complex, and also: MS-09-065.

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  • JohnnySoftware, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Just want to clarify that the article and stuff did not say that there was a virus spotted actively exploiting the bug(s) fixed by this patch. Just that it was highly possible that one could.

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