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Microsoft is issuing on January 21 an out-of-band (which means, not tied to a normal Patch Tuesday) resolve for the net Explorer protection breach that affected Google and other companies in China. Microsoft options to create the fix,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, designated as “critical,” available as close to 10 a.m. PST as possible, officials said.Update (9 a.m. PT): The patch is out. Steven Bink of Bink.nu fame,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, has links to all the various versions available for download.While Microsoft officials say the “only successful attacks” have been against customers running IE6, the resolve also applies to IE7 and IE8.Here;s the official word, via a Microsoft spokesperson:“(W)e will be releasing MS10-002 (on) January 21, 2010. We are planning to release the update as close to 10:00 a.m. PST as possible. This is a normal cumulative update, accelerated from our regularly scheduled February release,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, for Web Explorer with an aggregate severity rating of Critical. It addresses the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google and a small subset of corporations, as well as several other vulnerabilities. Once applied,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, customers are protected against the known attacks that have been widely publicized. We recommend that customers install the update as soon as it is available. For customers using automatic updates, this update will automatically be applied once it is released.”Microsoft also updated Safety Advisory 979352 to include information about additional products that may be affected by this vulnerability and guidance related to reports of proof of concept (POC) code that bypasses Data Encryption Protection (DEP), the spokesperson said.My blogging colleagues Ed Bott and Ryan Naraine have been covering this issue in more depth over the past few days,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, for those who want more information and background.