Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe all released security patches this week.

"Microsoft's single patch, MS10-001, affects Windows 2000 through Windows 7," writes InformationWeek's Thomas Claburn. "Its severity is rated 'critical' for Windows 2000 and 'low' for other Windows systems."

"Adobe has released an update for a month-old critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2, and Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Reader 9.2 for UNIX," Claburn writes.

"Oracle's Critical Patch Update, also just released, addresses 24 vulnerabilities in 7 of the company's enterprise products," Claburn adds.

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