Article ID: 955370 - Last Review: September 9, 2008 - Revision: 1.3

MS08-052: Description of the security update for GDI+ for Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2: September 9, 2008

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INTRODUCTION

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-052. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:

Home users:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200809.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200809.mspx)
IT professionals:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-052.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-052.mspx)

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How to obtain help and support for this security update

For home users, no-charge support is available by calling 1-866-PCSAFETY in the United States and Canada or by contacting your local Microsoft subsidiary. For more information about how to contact your local Microsoft subsidiary for support issues with security updates, visit the Microsoft International Support Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=4 (http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=4)

North American customers can also obtain instant access to unlimited no-charge e-mail support or to unlimited individual chat support by visiting the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?&prid=7552 (http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?&prid=7552)

For enterprise customers, support for security updates is available through your usual support contacts.

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Known issues with this security update

You may receive an error message when you try to install an update for Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
957599 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957599/ ) Error message when you try to install an update for Visual FoxPro 8.0 or for Visual FoxPro 9.0: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"
To install this security update, you must have Windows Installer 3.1 installed on the computer. To obtain the latest Windows Installer for the computer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c)

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Command-line switches for this security update

You can find information about the various command-line switches that are supported by this security update in security bulletin MS08-052 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-052.mspx) and on the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx)

For more information about Windows Installer, visit the following MSDN Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367449.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367449.aspx)

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Update removal information

To remove this security update, use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.

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File information

The English (United States) version of this security update has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

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