Microsoft to offer critical IE, Office, Windows patches

Another month, another Patch Tuesday. August's edition of the venerable Microsoft holiday will deliver a total of nine bulletins, six of which are rated as "critical" and three of which are "important". The full rundown follows:

• Six bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows with a maximum severity rating of critical. These updates will require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool.
  
• One bulletin affecting Microsoft Office with a maximum severity rating of critical. These updates will not require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
  
• One bulletin affecting Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows with a maximum severity rating of critical. This update will require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
  
• One bulletin affecting Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server with a maximum severity rating of important. This update will require a restart and will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool.

For more on August Patch Tuesday:
- see this post from the Microsoft Security Response Center