This month's batch of Microsoft vulnerabilities are centered more on remote execution rather than "visit this evil Web site and get hacked," said Eric Schultze, CTO of Shavlik Technologies, commenting on 
Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday in which 11 fixes were released. "We are getting into more vulnerabilities that hit the infrastructure, the Windows kernel, Active Directory, protocol overflows. If you have a Windows 2000 domain controller you are hosed," Schultze is quoted as saying in this Network World story. In all, Microsoft issued 11 patches (see complete list here). In addition to the four that were critical, six were listed as important and one as moderate. The platforms affected by the critical vulnerabilities include Active Directory, Internet Explorer, Host Integration Server and Excel.
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