UGH--More Vulnerabilities Vista Security Discuss UGH--More Vulnerabilities in the Windows Vista forums; When is your shiny new Windows Vista protected against evil Web threats? Not as often as we were all lead to believe in all those Microsoft Windows Vista ads. I ...

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When is your shiny new Windows Vista protected against evil Web threats? Not as often as we were all lead to believe in all those Microsoft Windows Vista ads. I ran across this post from Microsoft's Internet Explorer blog site shortly after the software giant patched the animated cursor flaw in Windows Vista with the release of MS07-017. Microsoft has said that users running IE 7 under Windows Vista are better protected from the malicious effects of Web exploits such as the animated cursor exploit than users running IE 7 under Windows XP IE7 due to the introduction of a new "sandbox" element (called Protected Mode) within the new operating system. For example, in the case of the animated cursor attack, with Protected Mode enabled, remote attackers can only view files on an infected Windows Vista machine, not run malicious code. Now it seems there are exceptions.

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-97....html?tag=blog

you automatically lose Protected Mode protection.

Some examples listed: READ THE ARTICLE...
UAC is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...on-or-off.aspx