Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE

Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for its Internet Explorer browser, aiming to fix a critical flaw that allowed hackers to take over computers merely by steering them to infected websites.

Microsoft Wednesday took the rare step of issuing the patch after numerous security experts advised people to switch to rival browsers until Microsoft fixed the problem. Microsoft usually releases patches on a set schedule and this is only the third emergency patch in the last three years.

The flaw has been in circulation since the first week of December. So far, more than two million computers are believed to have been infected, according to PC Magazine.

The vulnerabilities are found on copies of Internet Explorer 7, as well as IE6 and IE5. The patch is designed to prevent attackers from downloading malware onto users' computers if they visit a malicious Web site, or a legitimate Web site that has been infected.

Google Image Search Just Got Even Better

Few days ago, Google announced the launch of a new feature in their Image search option, using which one can search exclusively for faces and later on they released photo search feature. But now, they realized to do something even better and the output is what I am going to write about.

Now Google have included features to search for Line Drawings and Clip arts as well. So, if you are looking for some specific formats or types of images, then you can now easily locate the images you are looking for using these new options in Google Image Search.

To check out these new options, I personally tried searching images using the different options for the keyword ‘Christmas’ and here are those images.

If you remember, few days ago I mentioned a feature in Live Image Search using which we were able to find images using similar images. This new updates by Google, seems to be a reply to those guys at Microsoft.