May is a good month for Windows Vista Service Pack 1

It may be the beautiful weather keeping hackers away from their computers, or it could be down to the increased security solutions in Service Pack 1, but May has been a good month for Microsoft in terms of internet security. The company has only had to issue four security bulletins this month, none of which affect Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Users who haven’t updated Windows Vista to Service Pack 1 should definitely start thinking about that now, as the security bulletins do concern the non-updated operating system.

Tami Gallupe, Release Manager of Microsoft Security Response Center said that: “we just posted our May 2008 Bulletins. We released four bulletins today, which include three with a severity rating of critical and one with a severity rating of moderate… We recommend that customers install the updates provided in both MS08-026 and MS08-028 for the most up-to-date protection against these types of attacks.”

It is always a good idea to regularly check Windows Update, or better yet make your copy of Windows Vista download updates automatically, to make sure that your computer is protected against any new security threats.

The security bulletins are:

• MS08-026 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution
• MS08-027 Vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher Could Allow Remote Code Execution
• MS08-028 Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution
• MS08-029 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Denial of Service