Exploits available for several Microsoft vulnerabilities

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Be sure that you update your systems. Visit Windows Update to download security updates.

Public exploits, which are often the precursors to widespread worm attacks, have appeared in the last week for several of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft unveiled and patched last week in its blockbuster security bulletin release.

"It is imperative that the patches provided by Microsoft in its April security release be applied to systems as soon as possible. It is our belief that the likelihood of a worm being released SOON that exploits one of the vulnerabilities addressed by these patches is VERY HIGH," Tom Liston, a handler on duty for the security-focused SANS Institute, wrote in a post a few days after Microsoft posted the bulletins.