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The Secret Of UAC
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
First of all, not running UAC is like staying logged in as root 100% of the time on a unix based system. Despite this, a lot of “advanced users” still choose to disable User Account Control in Vista. I’ll cover a few reasons for keeping UAC enabled here. One of the most obvious disadvantages is losing Internet Explorer 7’s “sandbox” area.
The Protected Mode in IE7 runs all content without administrative privileges, and stores data (Cookies etc) in a different area, unless you specify the website as trusted. This can help protect you against malicious websites, especially those containing rogue ActiveX controls. When you disable UAC, all applications on your PC will run as administrator, whether they ask for it or not. This sounds harmless, but can be become troublesome if a bug is exploited in one of your commonly used programs that normally wouldn’t run with admin rights, and therefore wouldn’t get affected. unknownserv | Blog Archive » The Secret Of UAC
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