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Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings

smelroy writes "Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for five new software vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic for Applications that the company rated as critical. The company has posted patches for each of the flaws on its Web site. Four of the problems affect Microsoft's Office desktop software. You can read the story here and the security bulletins here."

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  1. Re:deja vu by BrokenHalo · · Score: 1, Troll
    And a "critical" flaw in Visual Basic? Since when did anybody use Visual Basic for anything critical anyway? I thought that was for newbies and wannabes.

    Unless Microsoft is really telling us that Windows is written in Basic. That would just be too funny :-)...