Security updates

Updated: 10 November 2009

When necessary, Microsoft provides a new security update on the second Tuesday of each month and publishes a bulletin to announce the update. Occasionally, updates are released more often. The links below go to the latest bulletins. Each bulletin includes links to the security updates.

Note To get technical details about updates, review the information published on Microsoft TechNet.

The latest bulletin

November 10, 2009

On November 10, 2009 we released 6 new security updates for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

Latest bulletins by program

Microsoft Windows: November 2009

JScript: September 2009

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS): October 2009

Microsoft ActiveX: October 2009

Microsoft Windows Media Player: October 2009

Microsoft Exchange Server: February 2009

Microsoft SQL Server: February 2009

Internet Explorer: October 2009

Visual Studio July 2009 (out-of-band)

Microsoft DirectX: June 2008

Microsoft Office: November 2009

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine: May 2008

Microsoft Virtual PC: July 2009

Virtual PC for Mac: November 2007

MSN Messenger: September 2007

Virtual Server: September 2007

Visual Basic: August 2007

JPEG Processing (GDI+): September 2004

Archived bulletins

For previous security update bulletins, see TechNet Microsoft Security Bulletin Search.



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