Security update MS10-018 is being released today

According to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2010 MS10-018 is releasing today around noon Central time:

This is an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on March 30, 2010. The bulletin is being released to address attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Users of Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 are not vulnerable to these attacks. The vulnerability used in these attacks, along with workarounds, is described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374 . The out-of-band security bulletin is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer and will also contain fixes for privately reported vulnerabilities rated Critical on all versions of Internet Explorer that are not related to this attack.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised March bulletin summary on March 30, 2010. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification .

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Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on the out-of-band security bulletin on March 30, 2010, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the March 30, 1:00 PM webcast . After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts .

Microsoft also provides information to help customers prioritize monthly security updates with any non-security, high-priority updates that are being released on the same day as the monthly security updates.

For all the detail see https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-mar.mspx

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer