Microsoft has issued notice of a flaw found in the Windows operating system. The flaw has the potential to severely compromise a computer running Windows; Microsoft has given the flaw a Severity Rating of Critical. It is associated with DirectX, the Windows library which performs multimedia handling, and could be exploited by carefully crafted buffer overruns. Microsoft has a fix available through Windows Update. They recommend all users of Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 Server operating system visit Windows Update and install the fix.

Windows Update is available at:
  http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

For more information about the flaw, please see
  Microsoft Warns of Critical Windows Flaw; Yahoo News; July 24, 2003
  Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-030

Windows Update, the facility through which the fix is distributed, is widely used by Microsoft to distribute updates to Windows users. For good Windows maintenance, users should become familiar with Windows Update and run it at a regular intervals.

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