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But you can also see it as a separation of tasks.

1. Building more secure products - This is really a proactive measure as you have to anticipate what might turn out to be security flaws. Attacks are mitigated at the software level.

2. Defending against known exploits - This is a reactive measure as you are given a known exploit or a vulnerability and intercept the attack. Attacks are mitigated at the insertion level.

It's only a conflict of interest if you purposely allow either one of these to be weaker so you can boost sales of the other. But this logic is a bit flawed because Microsoft makes much more money from Windows and Office so it doesn't stand to reason it would allow security flaws just to gain marketshare for antivirus programs.
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That's good for you and me  Michael Kelly | 02/08/06
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easy example  Jeff Spicoli | 02/08/06
Not so fast ...  ac2_z | 02/07/06
Perhaps not  java.user | 02/07/06
Well...  zkiwi | 02/07/06
Why?  java.user | 02/07/06
You are wrong  NonZealot | 02/07/06
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You are right  NonZealot | 02/07/06
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Because...  zkiwi | 02/07/06
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Thanks for the reply  NonZealot | 02/07/06
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Um . . . US-CERT says so  Suicida| | 02/07/06
One quick question  NonZealot | 02/07/06
Configuration  Suicida| | 02/08/06
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Sounds more like conflict of interest to me  GoPower | 02/07/06
hehe maybe  Monkey_MCSE | 02/07/06
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