Patch Tuesday should be an interesting day as Microsoft prepares patches for Internet Explorer, Word, Excel (and one for the office suite) and of course Windows.

The patches mostly relate to prevent remote execution of code but there are also a few that fix an issue allowing a hacker to elevate privileges and one that allows for remote disclosure of user information.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: June 4, 2009
Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: June 9, 2009

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on June 9, 2009.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the June bulletin summary on June 9, 2009. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.