KB3013455 (MS15-010) causes font corruption

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February 2015 update KB3013455 causes 'Courier New' font corruption on some Windows systems, I can confirm it for Windows Server 2003 and 2008. You can verify it in Notepad. Removing the update fixes the issue.

Windows 7 and 8.1 are not affected by the update.

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Yes Remove/Add Program >> View Installed Windows Updates >> I added the column to display installation date, reverse sorted and found "3013455" ((this update), then Uninstalled it.

This was common in the late 90's/early 2000's, had to remember which updates not to install that would break things. It's been solid for at least a decade, now this.

I don't really care what the fix is for. If I can't read my screen from my chair, I need to resolve it to do my job (own a web design firm).

I share the same opinion as this article "...the bottom line here is that if you want to be able to actually read the screen, you'll want to hold off installing this update until the problem is fixed."

http://windowsitpro.com/msrc/patch-tuesday-font-corruption-kb3013455

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The link for all downloads is:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/search/Results.aspx?q=kb3013455&form=DLC

Choose your OS from the half dozen big options at the top and it brings you right to the download page.

Hit the big red download button and it should offer you two updates:

kb3013455 (the original that breaks fonts)

and

KB3037639 (the secondary update to fix fonts)

I installed the original, said do not reboot, and installed the second.

After reboot I appear patched and my fonts are good.

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2015-02-13T10:21:21+00:00

This problem has hit my Vista laptop. It mainly seems to by Firefox and Chrome that are suffering.

I can see that KB3013455 was installed in 11th Feb but it doesn't show in the list of updates I can uninstall? In fact the last update shown in that list is dated July 2014 and that is Silverlight? Is this another problem caused by an update?!
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2015-02-13T10:33:49+00:00

No, so far there is no ground in assuming this. Actually, as there are so many updates not getting listed you seem to have this problem for some time already. Also, make sure that you don't overlook the latest updates. I know it's really easy to overlook updates within a list of so many updates. You can add the column showing the installation date and then sort by that column. If you still cannot find the update, please check out and add to this thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_update/cannot-uninstall-kb-3013455/3d287114-7800-4571-aef2-6a22bf240670

Not being able to uninstall this and other updates is a different problem and we should avoid making this thread even more confusing and long as it already is. Thanks.
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2015-02-13T10:37:21+00:00

This problem has hit my Vista laptop. It mainly seems to by Firefox and Chrome that are suffering.

I can see that KB3013455 was installed in 11th Feb but it doesn't show in the list of updates I can uninstall? In fact the last update shown in that list is dated July 2014 and that is Silverlight? Is this another problem caused by an update?!

People seem pretty sure that this update is the problem, which is more or less acknowledged by Microsoft.

Are you certain you cannot find it in Control Panel > Programs and Features > View Installed Updates (on the left side of the screen)? It may take a while to load.
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