Internet Explorer Microsoft has issued a security patch for both Internet Explorer 4 and 5 that fixes a number of security vulnerabilities. These include the "Frame Domain Verification", the "Unauthorized Cookie Access", and the "Malformed Component Attribute" vulnerability. You can get the patch at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/critical/patch7.htm. To install the patch, you need to be running IE 4.01 Service Pack 2 or IE 5.01. If you have older versions, Windows Update may say you don't need the patch. Microsoft says this is wrong. You need to update, and then patch.
Windows Microsoft has fixed a bug that affects all 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000. Because of a flaw in the way that IP fragments are reassembled by Windows, someone can launch a temporary denial of service attack against a computer. The attack will only last as long as specially constructed fragments are sent to the computer. It should not cause data loss, nor should it crash the computer. To find the fix for your version of Windows, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-029.asp. This security hole was discovered by Dmitri Netes of BindView, a network security research firm.
Photoshop 5.5 Look out! On Intel Pentium 3 computers, Photoshop 5.5 may crash or freeze, says Adobe. Visit http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2256a.htm for an array of workarounds.
Office 2000 A patch that squashes a security vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000, and the following Office Family of Suites can be downloaded at http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/info/ocx.htm: Word 2000, Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000, Access 2000, Photodraw 2000, FrontPage 2000, Project 2000, Publisher 2000, Outlook 2000, and Works 2000 Suite. The culprit is the ActiveX control that ships with Office 2000. It's marked "safe for scripting" when it shouldn't be. It allows the "Show Me" function in Office Help to script Office functions. This creates a perfect environment for a malicious Web operator to use the control to take advantage of the Office functions on the machine of a user who visited the site.