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Microsoft has posted new update packages, labeled Version 2, to the Microsoft Download Center for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3. Customers who manually installed Version 1 of this update from Microsoft Download Center need to reinstall Version 2 of this update. Customers who have installed this update using Microsoft Update or Office Update do not need to reinstall.

Why was this bulletin revised on August 20, 2008? 
Microsoft revised this bulletin to note that new update packages have been posted to the Microsoft Download Center for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3. The bulletin has also been revised to remove erroneous mitigations from the vulnerability information sections for Memory Allocation Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0120 and Memory Calculation Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0121.

How do I know whether I have the latest version of the update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3 installed on my system?
Customers can check the file version of powerpnt.exe on their systems to determine whether the latest version of the update is installed. Customers with version 11.0.8227.0 of powerpnt.exe on their systems have the latest version of the update and do not need to take any further action. Customers with version 11.0.8212.0 of powerpnt.exe on their systems have the incorrect version of the update installed

The incorrect version of the update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3 is installed on my system. What are the options for protecting my system? 
The initial packages that were released to the Microsoft Download Center earlier on August 12, 2008, labeled Version 1, contained incorrect versions of the binaries. While these versions did protect against the vulnerabilities discussed in the bulletin, they lacked other important security and reliability updates. This only affected the packages on the Microsoft Download Center; Microsoft Update and Office Update contained and were distributing the correct versions of the binaries and did not need to be updated. Customers who successfully deployed these updates through Microsoft Update or Office Update need not take any action. Those customers who deployed the update manually from the Microsoft Download Center prior to this update of the package (labeled Version 2) need to perform one of the following actions:

•Reinstall this latest version of the update, labeled Version 2, from the Microsoft Download Center manually. Please refer to the Affected Software table for the location of the latest packages for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3 on the Microsoft Download Center.

•Reinstall the update by using Microsoft Update or Office Update to automatically scan and offer the correct update.

•If you choose to not reinstall the update, you must manually set the registry key as described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 938810 in order to block PowerPoint file types as a workaround.