Taking a step further in its goal to fix up all loop-holes in services and tools, technology giant Microsoft released two new and important patches for its March Patch Tuesday release, fixing as many as 8 flaws plaguing Windows and Office. Users have also been warned of another zero-day attack in the company's popular web browser, Internet Explorer.

One flaw was patched by Microsoft in Windows Movie Maker, which affected both XP and Vista, and could have been exploited by remote hackers to launch some malicious code onto the PCs of users. Microsoft shared that the attack worked by hacker creating ad sending across a virus-laced Movie Market or Producer media file to a PC, and the virus is usually delivered to the victim through e-mail.

Microsoft also called out Microsoft Producer 2003 as a part of the list of affected products, but failed to update the application, while downplaying it as "a free download with limited distribution".

"Our standard approach is to produce updates that can be deployed automatically for all affected products at the same time but Producer 2003 does not offer a means for automatic update. Based on our investigation, we determined that the best way to protect the vast majority of customers was to release an update addressing the components that shipped with Windows", said Jerry Bryant, Microsoft Senior Security Communications Manager, in an official blog post.