Internet Explorer 8 crashes when you scroll a scrollbar on a webpage that has Windows Media Player embedded

Assume that you have Windows Media Player that is embedded in an Internet Explorer 8 webpage. When you scroll a scrollbar on that page, Internet Explorer 8 may crash.

Note This issue does not occur in Internet Explorer 9.

Update information

To resolve this issue, install the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. To do this, go to Microsoft Update.

For technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, go to the following Microsoft website:Note This update was first included in security update 2909921.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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