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To: EPS who wrote (23240)	7/27/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: EPS	Respond to of 42771

Serious NT bug emerges By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM July 27, 1998, 3:20 p.m. PT update A flaw in Microsoft's Windows NT operating system allows an ordinary network user, and possibly anyone with Internet access, to impersonate a system administrator. Armed with knowledge of how to exploit this flaw, anyone on a Windows NT client on an NT network can gain the power to switch other users' passwords, add new addresses, change access rights to confidential network areas, and generally run the network in the same manner as an administrator, according to Mark Edwards, a private security consultant and principal behind the NT Security and NT Shop Web pages. "It's a pretty big problem," he said. "Even though it's a local attack, it's probably one of the top five or six bugs [for Windows NT]." news.com

To: EPS who wrote (23240)	7/28/1998 8:45:00 AM
From: Ben Antanaitis	Respond to of 42771

Victor, To economize on the work and calculations required to present the information, I only calculate the open interest value data points at 'strike prices'. Because of this, my Max-Pain graphs can only have a slope change occur at strike price points. At these points, the volume of the new strike price calls/puts gets added, in a linear fashion, to the existing value of the 'in-the-money' open interest at that stock price. Now if I used smaller stock price increments in the work, you might find that the Max-Pain point falls between two strike prices. My 'shortcut' give you a curve with a flat or shallow bottom, indicating that the MP point might be between them, but the lower side is closer and more probable. Ben A. ez-pnf.com

To: EPS who wrote (23240)	7/28/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Victor and others: I noticed in this mornings Investor's Business Daily that Novell's next quarter (3rd) consensus estimate went from 7 cents (previous few months report) to 6 cents. Does anyone out there know if one or more of the analysts covering Novell made a revision in this upcoming quarter's estimates over the past week or so? Seems to me that this could have been another variable that caused Novell's price to weaken last week. Thanks, QuadK