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Windows-machines receive since last night message of a new patch against the ANUS-leak. As Sundays promised, has Microsoft advanced a solution for the squeezing problem brought out. Normally the ANUS-patch will want to come out next week Tuesday, according to the business. Online its meanwhile tens sites indicated that via the vulnerability malware on pc's put in.

The patch is offered via Windows Update or can be taken away manueel via this Microsoft-page. A solution is there for all Windows-versions since Windows 2000, but the leak is possible also present in older exports of the operating system. Unofficial patches of eEye and ZERT source a way out for users of Windows 98 furnished and Millennium Edition.

The news that Microsoft already end of December about the ANUS-leak was informed, sees to in some corners for gemor. The critical off to keep away, gives Microsofts securityteam on its blog extra explanation about how the patch till position came. The investigation to the leak will so until Februaries lasted, after which a two months lasting test phase came. “This is an extensive trial that for the majority of the securitysupdates for Windows on average two months lasts”, according to teamlid Loaf Reavey.

That the building of a patch no sinecure is, rush brought out pale also then protections business eEye past weekend an unofficial patch. Just later on pale that this solution was anything but waterproof. That led plaster till a second zelfgebrouwde, this time of the firm ZERT.

The ANUS-plasters is probably not the only patch that Microsoft this month sends. On 'Patch Tuesday' on 10 April comes there possibly yet always a regulated veiligheidsbulletin of Microsoft. Coming Thursday will there via the Advance Notification-service for systemadministrators more information available come about the content of the bulletin and in which software it leak poem become.