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InternetNews December 13, 2005 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Crafts Critical Patches Microsoft released two security bulletins on Patch Tuesday and it revised a patch originally released in October to correct critical vulnerabilities in all versions of IE except IE 6 for Windows Server 2003.
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