Vista UAC -- this is "trustworthy computing?"
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| If you don't know what I'm talking about, you are one of the lucky ones
| that has yet to sample this latest effort by Microsoft to safe guard
| Vista users from their own stupidity - the UAC or "User Account Control."
|
| In fact UAC has so captured the furry users, it's been incorporated into
| the latest Apple "Hi, I'm a PC -- I'm a Mac? TV spots in the US.
| It's priceless and one of the best in the serious, if you've missed it
| you can see it here.
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http://d2.degen.net/?p=62
Bolting security on top of a fundamentally badly-built O/S will not save it
from mutating Trojans and evolving cracking methods.
Related:
Vista's UAC security is hopeless, says Symantec
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| A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC) is
| still nearly unusable, Symantec has said.
|
| At a press presentation last week, Symantec vice president of
| engineering Rowan Trollope said Symantec's customers had found the
| feature so "chatty", that it was a burden on users, potentially
| creating new help-desk calls.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7769
Microsoft unlikely to lead anti-virus sector
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| In an article published by Kaspersky Lab - Security from
| Microsoft -- the door to a brave new world? - Kaspersky gives three
| reasons why the software giant will struggle to join the
| anti-virus sector.
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http://www.it-observer.com/news/7018/microsoft_unlikely_lead_anti_virus_sector/
Windows Vista set to overwhelm helpdesks
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| The Windows Vista features that will most benefit end users are
| likely to cause a flood of calls to enterprise IT help desks, it
| was claimed today.
|
| SupportSoft predicted that one of the main areas in which
| end-users are likely to experience problems will be dealing
| with Vista's security features.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=44424
Windows Vista Tip: Run as administrator
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| This will make every admin operation prompt you for credentials
| while it is great if you do a lot of remote operations it can
| become tedious if you are performing a lot of local admin operations.
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http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/12/01/windows-vista-tip-run-as-administrator.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/y64c6r
Microsoft: Turn off Vista's UAC to fix problems
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| I've been fairly critical of the new User Access Control (UAC) in
| Windows Vista, as I feel it is too secure to be usable, which will
| probably result in many users and corporations turning off and
| losing out on what could have been Vista?s best feature.
|
| [...]
|
| He recommends turning UAC back on after fixing the problem, but
| when users need to do this more than a couple of times to get a
| usable system, they will just leave it turned off.
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http://beta.amanzi.co.nz/2006/11/13/microsoft-turn-off-vistas-uac-to-fix-problems/
'Vista's Account Protection: One Click and It's Gone'
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| One of Vista's big security features is 'User Account Protection'
| (or 'User Account Control') which pops up and asks for user
| authentication before software can make any administrative changes to
| the system. But the TweakVista utility can turn off UAP in one click...
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http://securitydot.net/news/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/2661/news.html
The Truth About User Privileges
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| Has the time finally come for the least-privilege user -- you know,
| setting your Windows client machines to run without system
| administrator rights?
|
| [...]
|
| Today, some Windows applications just won't run properly on a
| desktop without administrative rights. "It's a dirty little
| secret people sweep under the rug because they're not able to
| do much about the problem. A lot of applications and pieces
| of environments won't work if users aren't given admin rights,"
| says Steve Kleynhans, vice president for Gartner's client
| platforms group. "If you can get applications to function
| with lower rights, in a lot of cases it hampers the user
| experience."
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=110225&WT.svl=news1_1
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