-Yahoo! News posts news from IDG on Microsoft Fixes IE, DirectX Security Bugs

Desktop users will want to be sure to install the critical Internet Explorer and DirectX updates as soon as possible, said Amol Sarwate, vulnerability lab manager with security vendor Qualys. Some of the flaws addressed in these patches can be exploited in Web-based attacks where a criminal tricks the victim into visiting a malicious Web page and then takes advantage of the bug to install malicious software on the Windows PC.

No, we aren't talking about allowing malicious websites to download files to your designated download ...