Article ID: 978695 - Last Review: June 8, 2010 - Revision: 2.0

MS10-033: Description of the security update for Media Format Runtime 9, for Media Format Runtime 9.5, and for Media Format Runtime 11: June 8, 2010

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INTRODUCTION

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS10-033. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft websites:

Home users:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/bulletins/201006.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/bulletins/201006.aspx)
Skip the details: Download the updates for your home computer or laptop from the Microsoft Update website now:
http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ (http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/)
IT professionals:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-033.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-033.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 website:

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 email support or to unlimited individual chat support by visiting the following Microsoft website:

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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MORE INFORMATION

Known issues with this security update

You may be able to install this security update on systems that are running Windows Media Format Runtime 9 in Microsoft Windows 2000 and that do not have update 891122 installed. When you do this, you may not receive an error message, and the system is not protected by the security update. Microsoft no longer supports Windows Media Format Runtime 9 that does not have update 891122 installed. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
974316 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974316/ ) Some Windows Media related products or components are not supported on Windows 2000 and on Windows NT 4.0

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FILE INFORMATION

The English (United States) version of this software update installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time and with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

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