On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: > To avoid being inflammatory I have neglected to chime in and state I have > NEVER had an FP or a machine overwhelmed by ForeFront and MS has not released > a bad dat that frankly simply failed QA.
To the best of my knowledge, both the recent Sunbelt and McAfee bugs made it through QA. I think the implicit assumption here is that "all software has bugs". My own experience backs this up. The ideas under discussion are to minimize collateral damage when problems occur. That's why OSes have implement memory protection between processes -- so if one process blows up, it doesn't take down everything. Etc. I've certainly encountered countless bugs in other Microsoft software, and I find it unlikely in the extreme that the Forefront people know how to create bug-free software. I will certainly agree that some software/companies have more bugs than others. Perhaps Forefront is indeed better in that regard; I wouldn't know. But perfection? No. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
