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Do I need to patch Internet Explorer?

Posted on April 26, 2009 at 06:41 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Reader DS writes:

I’m using Firefox.

I updated some of the April 2009 Black Tuesday patches, but haven’t patched KB952004, KB596972, KB959426, KB960803.

Vista is running so good I don’t want to mess it up. Should I just go ahead and patch with finger’s crossed?

Yep. The MS-DEFCON 4 status applies to everyone using Firefox. The April 2009 patches seem to be working. Unfortunately, you have to patch Internet Explorer even if you use Firefox, because IE is baked into Windows.

Windows Patches/Security KB 596972, KB 952004, KB 959426, KB 960803

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