A buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player software could let malicious attackers run code of their choice on a victim’s system, Microsoft warned in an advisory today.

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Am I missing out on any codecs or other newer / more advanced decoding / encoding drivers by running Windows Media Player 6.4 instead of 7.1+?<P>I shudder at the clunkiness of 7.1 and prefer not to ...

Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft Corp. and AOL LLC, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (codec) or disable the player programs. In a ...