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Although several Microsoft partners in the security market, including Symantec, Brightmail, Panda, and Network Associates -- "you'd expect them to, wouldn't you?" retorted Jennings -- one firewall vendor blasted Microsoft.

"Zone Labs believes Microsoft is providing a disservice to its customers by letting them think they're secure," a company spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. "We all know that a false sense of security can be more dangerous than no security at all. A first-generation firewall does not offer adequate protection."