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Homeland Security urges users to get Microsoft patch

NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- The Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory Wednesday urging people to immediately apply a security patch for vulnerabilities in all supported versions of the Microsoft Corp. Windows operating system.

Windows is the No. 1 operating system for personal computers in the world.

``From time to time the Department of Homeland Security has issued advisories on Microsoft security bulletins,'' Microsoft said. So far Microsoft knows of only one or two attacks.

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The advisories always involve patches for those situations that warrant a ``critical'' rating, such as the latest one. Anti-virus software maker Symantec Corp. concurred with Homeland Security by identifying MS06-040 ``as being the update of most concern this month.''