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VISTA UAC not a security feature !

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anandk
anandk Original post #1
Feb 18, 2007 at 10:12 AM
For those who thought the User Account Control (UAC) feature introduced in Windows Vista was intended to set security boundaries, Microsoft has made a clarification: it isn't.

The most direct communication about UAC to date came on Monday from Mark Russinovich, a Technical Fellow in Microsoft's Platform and Services Division, who joined the company when it bought Russinovich's Winternals Software. Russinovich is a noted developer of Windows utilities and is credited with being the first to discover the rootkit in Sony BMG's copy-protection software...

*www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=8031&pagtype=all
techtronic
Feb 18, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Thanks for the info buddy :D
dissel
dissel #3
Feb 19, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Thanks for the info.