Microsoft security bulletins for May

The second Tuesday, affectionately known as 'Patch Tuesday' by Microsoft Windows administrators, has come and gone. For the month of May, Microsoft released a total of three new Security Bulletins. Two of them, MS06-019 and MS06-020 are rated as 'Critical' by Microsoft, while MS06-018 is considered to be only a 'Moderate' risk.

Some security experts expected Microsoft to also include a new Internet Explorer patch. Microsoft just released a cumulative patch last month for the Web browser, but new vulnerabilities have since been exposed, some of whic

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