I am pretty sure every person who wants to tear Microsoft down watches Microsoft pretty closely. They then race to blog about it, brag or exploit it.
That gut level anti-Microsoft view by so many (many who have their jobs supporting these products) who persist in this belief leave me in the "as long as it performs the function I need it to perform" I will use it camp and I will trust that the existing competition will keep them playing. Steven On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not trying to be terribly anal here, but there are a few things I don't > > trust to free products, and this is at the top of the list. > > MSE isn't "free"; it's paid for with your Windows license fee. > > I tend to avoid Microsoft's security products simply because of > defense-in-depth. It's a "Who watches the watchmen?" thing. We're > talking about having a Microsoft product watch for security issues in > Microsoft products. I think it's more likely for a third-party > product to spot things, simply because of the different point-of-view. > This reasoning doesn't apply to everything (known-bad signature-based > detection, for example), but for things like heuristics and rule-based > detection, I'd expect Microsoft's own people to be more susceptible to > Microsoft's systemic blindspots. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
