Text 58652, 45 rader
Skriven 2009-12-02 10:01:37 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 58642 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Win 7 & UAC ?
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Alan, good morning to you, three hours ahead of time.

 JP>>     I will disagree with you here, very few UAC challenges here on
 AZ> Win 7.

	Win 7 is the argument here, Alan. It has not bothered me much.

 AZ> I'm with Charles on this one... on both Linux and Mac OS X systems, when
 AZ> a software installer or a system process (like updates) wants to make
 AZ> changes to system files or settings, the user is asked to verify this
 AZ> with an administrator's password.

	In all of my machines, against recommendations from Jeff and all, I run  them
all as Administrator. This might explain why I see so few UACs.

 AZ> Pre-Vista, any time a user was logged into a Windows system with an
 AZ> administrator-level account, any install was permitted - even if it
 AZ> happened without the user's awareness. Very bad!

	Obviously agreed. Locking the MBR is paramount, on top of getting proper AV.

 AZ> -- moreover, rather than ask for a password, all users needed to do was
 AZ> click OK, something that malware can spoof.

	I have noticed this infantile way to get an agree from a user, what is the
point then, where is the protection. I get on all booting, on UAC that I am
trying to rid my system, it has to do with the Acer (Dell) driver for this
monitor, it keeps asking for authorization on all bootings. As I get a very
nice screen now, I keep OKing the request. Did you read my note to Charles of
last evening about the funny resolution, Tom would say : if it works !

 AZ> Win7's UAC gives users more control over when it appears, and by default
 AZ> appears less often, making it less annoying. It still doesn't ask for a
 AZ> password - so that problem still exists. And some articles suggest that
 AZ> the default settings are too loose, allowing some potential malware
 AZ> installations - they suggest that as a result, Win 7 - out of the box -
 AZ> is less secure than Vista.

	Could not any PW also be spoofed by a malware writer ? These guys are
ingenious enough. This is to prevent the usual "dumb" user from being infected.
I am so cautious that I get nothing. Touching forehead ! I should go and read
some of this articles too.

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