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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:40:56 -0200 From: "M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com> To: Christopher Pritchard <mailinglist@...iniacghost.co.uk> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk> Subject: Re: Windows 7 UAC compromised Windows says: Hello world! Check this out, world, this is really cool. Now I have, uh, something like, uh, "privileges management"! "UAC" is no more than a new commercial designation for something with about 40 years. And they (Redmond) are still missing the concept's point. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Christopher Pritchard <mailinglist@...iniacghost.co.uk> wrote: >> The biggest issue here is that although it's technically easy to fix >> this problem (just have UAC issue an alert when somebody's messing with >> the system settings), it involves doing more of what end users dislike >> most about UAC (it issuing alerts to Joe Sixpack all the time when he >> does something bone-headed security-wise). >> >> Fixing this one in a way that users will put up with will be a bitch. > > Why not just have it not prompt if you are changing settings, except for UAC settings? that would be the simple way around it > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- Marcio Barbado, Jr. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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