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Re: MS responds to nonexistant UAC bug in Windows 7 ..

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____/ Doug Mentohl on Thursday 05 February 2009 14:47 : \____

> 
> 
> Lusotec wrote:
> 
>> Allowing *any* program to *automatically* turn off a security barrier (UAC)
>> is complete nonsense.
> 
> A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that
> subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that
> Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and that one of its
> software engineers said would be fixed in the beta.
> 
> Today, however, the company said it had addressed the issue in post-beta
> builds that have not yet been released to the public
> 
>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127392

Radical changes for a 'beta', no?

This VistaII thing is brewing to become another disaster.

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