Tech Net tells about UAC. - A Must Read Vista Security Discuss Tech Net tells about UAC. - A Must Read in the Windows Vista forums; Security Watch more ... The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control Dr. Jesper M. Johansson The problem with running as an administrator is obvious: any malware that attacks users, or ...

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The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control
Dr. Jesper M. Johansson

The problem with running as an administrator is obvious: any malware that attacks users, or the applications they run, will have full control over 90 percent of the computers it infects. The User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista is the Microsoft solution to a pervasive security challenge—the fact that over

90 percent of users currently on the Windows platform run with administrative privileges. While it is possible to run as a standard user on Windows® XP—and I have—it can be extremely painful. For instance, if you travel frequently while using Windows XP, you'll find that as a standard user, you're unable to modify the time zone on your system.

UAC is the feature that is supposed to change all that. Actually, that's the first misconception. UAC is not just a feature; it is a collection of features, most of which are not particularly obvious. I won't give you an in-depth analysis of all the implementation details of UAC. For that, I highly recommend Mark Russinovich's article in the June 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, which you can find online at technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/06/UAC.( http://technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/06/UAC )

Rather, in this piece I hope to give you an unbiased view of what UAC is, what it is not, and how that affects the way you should manage your systems that are running Windows Vista®.

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[ProCookie]

Seems like UAC actually has its uses then, having said that i have never had UAC telling m that a program has tried to run that i haven't actually clicked on myself.

[Vistanoob]

I read the whole article. That's the most in-depth answer to my questions about circumventing, UAC I have ever seen. Very interesting