Last Tuesday Microsoft and Adobe released patches to fix critical security bugs. Microsoft released patches to several components of it's OS as well as Internet Explorer and Office. Several of these could be used to take over your computer if you visited a website or opened a Office document and clicked the enable macro button.
Adobe Updated Flash Player to version 15.0.0.223 fixing several bugs that could be used to attack and take over your computer from a remote website.
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