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To: E.J. Neitz Jr who wrote (35752)	8/16/2003 4:48:44 PM
From: mr.mark	of 110653

somebody is lying and we don't know who. i know who i believe. who do you believe.... ****************************** "I know of numerous companies -- more than 10 -- with thousands of computers among them that have run into this problem," Cooper said. (Russ Cooper is moderator of a mailing list with 30,000 subscribers that tracks Microsoft's software weaknesses) <snip> Cooper said he notified Microsoft (MSFT: news, chart, profile) of the potential vulnerability days ago, and by late Wednesday Microsoft had changed its Blater/Lovesan patching process. **************************** Stephen Toulouse, a security program manager at Microsoft**, said "tens of millions" of computers have successfully patched their software without incident. "We put a team of people on this and could not reproduce the problem," Toulouse said. "We've made no change to the Windows Update site, and we are not aware of any of the problems that Cooper is talking about. <snip> He said Microsoft checked every installation of Blaster/Lovesan patch to make sure it was working successfully.

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