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It's not surprising that the flaw found its way into Windows Server 2003, said Russ Cooper, an analyst at Reston, Va.-based TruSecure Corp. and moderator of the popular NTBugtraq mailing list. "For all its work, Microsoft knows that solving the buffer-overflow problem is not going to happen," Cooper said. "They can reduce the number, minimize the effects for some services, but [neither] they nor anyone else can get rid of them, no matter what hype is associated with it."

Sort of explains why MS is trying to map all their API's up to managed code in the .NET framework :)