Security updates

Updated: 9 June 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

•	June 9, 2009 On June 9, 2009 we released 10 security bulletins for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Internet Information Services.

Latest bulletins by program

•	Microsoft Windows: June 2009
•	Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS): June 2009
•	Microsoft ActiveX: December 2008
•	Microsoft Windows Media Player: December 2008
•	Microsoft Exchange Server: February 2009
•	Microsoft SQL Server: February 2009
•	Internet Explorer: June 2009
•	Microsoft DirectX: June 2008
•	Microsoft Office: June 2009
•	Microsoft Malware Protection Engine: May 2008
•	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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