From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:420d4f12$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I got another one for you. If you install XP and SP2 then go to windows
> update, one of the patches it downloads is titled KB887472 yet it's not
> listed in the security bulletin search page
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx when you search for
> fixes after XPsp2.
>
> Then if you go to www.microsoft.com and search for kb887472 you get
> *nothing* but if you go to the KB and search you get this
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887472 which of
> course points to KB890261 which is also known as MS05-009.
>
> So what we have is WindowsUpdate installing K890261 but calling it
> KB887472.
>
> and then when you go to download KB890261 for XPsp2 it takes you to a
> ANOTHER page  called KB887472 (which search FAILED to find) and a patch
> file
> named WindowsXP-KB887472-x86-enu.exe.
>
> My conclusion was that either they do this on purpose to make it all but
> impossible to patch without using windows update or their whole security
> management system is just one big disorganized mess being run by so many
> different hands they can't get anything straight. I am so glad I'm not on
> the windowsupdate team... those poor guys must not have any hair left.


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