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Tech Digest: PC users are being urged to apply software patches that close a “critical” vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Since coming to light in late March, the flaws have proved popular with hackers, who have created hundreds of webpages that use the bug to take over vulnerable computers. The most serious of the four loopholes being closed by the Microsoft patches is known as the CreateTextRange bug and is one that has been labelled “critical”, the highest level. It affects the IE browser and can potentially hand over control of a vulnerable PC to an attacker if a specially crafted webpage is visited. Go get the update now (Internet Explorer required).