Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw | Zero Day | ZDNet.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 May 08
  

  F M
  • "[When] you try to run such a program, you get a UAC prompt and you have only two choices: either to agree to run this application as administrator or to disallow running it at all. That means that if you downloaded some freeware Tetris game, you will have to run its installer as administrator, giving it not only full access to all your file system and registry, but also allowing it to load kernel drivers! Why should a Tetris installer be allowed to load kernel drivers?," Rutkowska asked in a post on her Invisible Things blog.

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      F M on 2008-05-13

      If this is the biggest security problem of UAC, it should be perfect.

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  F M on 2008-05-13
  If this is the biggest security problem of UAC, it should be perfect.

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