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Microsoft patches make security worse




Microsoft's $100 million security programme is a failure, its patches actually reduce security and people would do better to stick with NT4.0 and install their own security measures rather than rely on the software giant. That is the blunt assessment of one of the world's leading authorities on Windows vulnerabilities - TruSecure senior scientist and NT BugTraq list editor, Russ Cooper. Speaking at the AusCert 2004 conference in Queensland, Cooper also said that Microsoft's security gets worse rather than better with every Windows upgrade and that the company's focus on the consumer market was putting companies at risk. "Version over version [patches] have gotten no better. Patching is not the solution," Cooper said.

Cooper's criticism visibly raised the hackles of Microsoft's representatives at AusCert, especially when Cooper said that Microsoft shareholders ought to be worried by its habit of seeking revenue from patch-ridden upgrades rather than securing its code base.

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