On 23 Sep 2010 at 18:50, Ben Scott wrote: > 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.
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