Microsoft rethinks latest security patch Update is upgraded to "critical"

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Update: Microsoft rethinks latest security patch
Upgrades fix for Outlook from 'important' to 'critical'

News Story by Paul Roberts
MARCH 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - One day after releasing a trio of security patches, Microsoft Corp. is upgrading the seriousness of one of those fixes to "critical."

The software update attached to security bulletin MS04-009 was initially described as an "important" patch (see story). The change follows "continued evaluation" by Microsoft's Security Response Center, a company spokesman wrote in an e-mail today.

Microsoft defines "critical" bulletins as those concerning software vulnerabilities that, if exploited, "could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without user action." "Important" bulletins concern vulnerabilities that, if exploited, "could result in compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of users' data, or of the integrity or availability of processing resources," according to the company's Web site.

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