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Microsoft gets around to saving your bacon

Microsoft gets around to saving your bacon

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
Despite that recent IE security flaws were serious enough to warrant out-of-cycle patches, Microsoft stuck with its scheduling guns and today released a whopper of a security update that patches no less than 10 security flaws--8 of which could be used to take over your Windows machine. Unfortunately, even this dubiously good news was overshadowed by two new "critical" Windows flaws and a handful of "won't kill you...yet" problems. Those guys can't buy good security PR. And they've got a lot of money, too.