Microsoft has released a special security patch today (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017) to protect your computer against the Animated Cursor vulnerability first discovered a few weeks ago. Apparently, Microsoft decided that this was important enough to break their normal second Tuesday of the month patch release cycle to get this patch on computers.

According to the Determina security web site that first discovered the issue, “As Microsoft has pointed out, any web page, email or content that can load an animated cursor can allow an attacker to take advantage of the vulnerability and run arbitrary code on the users system.”

Read more about the security vulnerability and download the patches here.