The second Tuesday of each month heralds Microsoft’s monthly Security Updates for Windows. This month’s batch includes security updates for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Telnet, and HTML Help, to name a few.

The update for Outlook Express affects OE primarily when it is used as a newsgroup reader. In that mode, says Microsoft, an attacker could “exploit the vulnerability by constructing a malicious newsgroup server that could that potentially allow remote code execution if a user queried the server for news. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.”

The Internet Explorer update is a real gotcha…

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