There is no patch from Microsoft today, yes, it’s true. While as sure as Wednesday night was Prince Spaghetti Night, so the second Tuesday of the month is Microsoft Patch Day, the software giant has pulled the patch it was planning to release today.

Indeed, as recently as last Thursday, Mike Reavey, a lead Security Program Manager with Microsoft, posted to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog that “This coming Tuesday, we’re planning to release one security bulletin, and its (sic) in Windows. The maximum severity rating for this is Critical, so please update systems as soon as possible. We don’t expect this update to cause a reboot and it can be deployed and detected with MBSA, Microsoft Update, and WSUS. Also, we’re going to release an updated version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool.”

However, later in the week Reavey posted that “we’ve had a little change in plans…

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