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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Windos 7 should kill UAC

Ars Technica have published an article describing their experience with the redesigned UAC security features for Windows 7, originally introduced for Windows Vista. I have to agree whole heartedly with the author. Yes UAC was annoying and even if you had admin rights under Vista you still presented with additional prompts for every single privileged action. However they were there for a reason; to make the user aware of his actions and to think twice before running everything standard as administrator. The implementation wasn´t perfect of course. For example the fact that you can switch it off is one thing, and the user has to create a standard user in addition to the default administrator account.
But now that they have decided to reduce the number of UAC prompts in Windows 7 following user complaints, including the ability to run rundll32 with elevated rights, means they´ve only succeeded in making a gaping hole in what was originally a vast improvement on traditional Windows security.
Sounds like Microsoft have made a pigs ear of another Windows release.

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