Vista question

Old_Sherlock

Salamancer wrote: »

No, it is fact.
The point I made was clear, UAC doesn't make your Windows experience more secure.
All it does is give you several more dialogue boxes when you want to do simple things.
The UAC asks you when you're installing something on your computer, 'not' when something is trying to break its way onto your computer without permission.

The point that article made was that the UAC is thought of making your computer more secure, which it just doesn't do.
All those links prove this, also. Vista UAC is a hassle more than anything.

In regards to the Chrome exploit, the point stands clearly.
When someone installs that web browser and simply visits a web page, that web page was able to place any file it wanted onto your desktop without you knowing at all. In a more complex coded page, with appropriate Javascript module, it can execute that file also.
All that without a single dialogue box past the installation.

Unless you're just installing every single thing you see, you don't-need-UAC.
All it does it restrain 'you', not the program.

People are more than capable of knowing what they click on, they don't need 3+ dialogue boxes every single time. That's just pathetic.

Rubbish.......

UAC is a fundamental part of Vista ,minimizing the risk of malicious code attacks.

Virus infected code is getting more and more devious in the way it installs on a users system,

Attack focused source code ,Java applets ,cross scripting, active x,self extracting rootkits, dos attacks ,.........????......%%%

UAC helps to prevent this.

It is a part of Vista`s security policy and should be left enabled .





btw .... if you use ie 7 without having UAC enabled you will not be able to utilise protected mode.