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05-26-2008, 10:34 AM
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UAC vs Rootkits
Those of you who have don't use UAC might want to read this article:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...ests_find.html |
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05-26-2008, 11:17 AM
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Not sure how to interpret that. UAC might warn that "something" is happening, but the flip coin is that many (if not the majority) don't really pay attention to what they are clicking yes/no to with UAC. So, if UAC is just giving a standard warning that something is trying to install, too many users will probably click right thru it. I doubt UAC makes a special warning about the installing program being a rootkit or not.
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05-26-2008, 02:35 PM
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I agree but I did find this quote from the article interesting "The results for Vista products were harder to assess because only six rootkits could run on the OS, but the testers had to turn off UAC to get even this far. Vista's UAC itself spotted everything thrown in front of it."
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05-26-2008, 05:49 PM
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Ya, I saw that... but, to me at least, it's not clear if it's just the standard UAC warning. I think it is.
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