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Confusion about Vista Features: What UAC Really Is

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

As you may know I am just putting the finishing touches on a new book. Roger Grimes and I windows vista 26.jpgteamed up to write Windows Vista Security. In the course of doing the research for the book, and just keeping up with the popular press lately, it has become obvious that there is a lot of confusion about User Account Control (UAC) in Vista. The chapter on UAC in the book goes into detail on exactly what UAC is and what it is supposed to do, and I thought I would give a little preview here.

There seems to be a fairly consistent consensus that the purpose of UAC is to block malicious code on your system from horking your system completely. It is not entirely clear where this consensus comes from though. Jesper’s Blog : Confusion about Vista Features: What UAC Really Is

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