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Talkback: MS anti-malware biz a conflict of interest?

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Sep 29, 20061 min

InfoWorld Security Adviser Roger Grimes writes the Microsoft’s new malware-fighting tools raise debate about making profit from holes in your own products.

“The company’s worst critics are worried that key vulnerabilities could be left in Windows longer to benefit additional Microsoft revenue streams,” Grimes writes.

“I think it is a fair question, and I encourage the discussion and debate.”

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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