Microsoft Security Patches September 2009

microsoft_windowsMicrosoft has released five critical and important security patches for September 2009 which fixes the browser and web based attacks in various Microsoft programs and Operating Systems. All security patches have a critical or important security rating and are users who work with these softwares or operating systems should update them as soon as possible to protect their system from these vulnerabilities. Browser based attacks where websites hosting malicious code attempt to compromise visitors. This includes MS09-045,MS09-046 and MS09-047. Network based scenarios where attackers attempt Remote Code Execution (RCE) or Denial-of-Service (DoS) type attacks. This includes MS09-048 and MS09-049.

Microsoft has released two charts that show the severity and exploitable index and the deployment priority. The former interesting for all users while the latter probably only for network administrators.

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Increase the Number of Server Connections to Speedup Internet Explorer

Microsoft has made sure that Internet Explorer follows Internet standards, by allowing you and your browser to download only two files at a time from any server.

If you visit a web page with a lot of images and required files, such as CSS styles and JavaScript, you can easily end up with a scenario where your web browser has to make more than 40 requests to the web server to download all the files and then assemble the web page. Requesting only two of these 40 files at a time is going to be a lot slower than downloading, say, 10 of them at a time.

By tweaking a hidden registry value, you can speedup Internet Explorer and break Internet standards to download more than just two files at a time. Modifying this setting is simple to do, but be careful; the standards police will be after you. Follow these steps to speed up IE: [Read more...]