Windows 7 is being spared by Microsoft’s monthly security fixes

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Latest Microsoft computer OS has survived for the initial few weeks on the market with no need for security fixes.
Several security holes has been plugged by Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday, but none of them are aimed at Windows 7, which was released at 22 Oct.
That’s to be expected, said Ben Greenbaum, a researcher at the Symantec Corp. the famous antivirus software company. “It will require more time from the attackers to find ways of breaking into Windows 7,” he said.
Users can get the patches through Microsoft’s automatic-update service, or by visiting Microsoft.com/security.
One of the fixes Microsoft marked “critical,” its highest severity rating, would thwart an attacker from infecting all the PCs on a local network after gaining access to just one. In other words, even if most people in the office are good at avoiding clicking on unknown links or opening mysterious documents, if one person’s computer is compromised the attacker he could take over the rest.
The software maker also fixed flaws in its software’s of Excel and Word that would give an attacker control of a PC if its owner opened a tainted spreadsheet or document.
It also patched problems in several older versions of Windows, including XP and Vista, that would give an attacker who already has control of a computer access to a lot of its functions.