Re: I turned off UAC
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Jack the Ripper wrote:
Justin wrote:
Jack the Ripper wrote:
+Bob+ wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:43:31 -0500, Jack the Ripper <Jack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nothing is bulletproof, but one doesn't see a lot of posts by Vista
users about virus or malware issues, not like you see on XP.
No, but you do see a lot of posts about how UAC sucks. Good idea, bad
implementation.
It's the posts of the ignorant. I would rather have it enabled so
that I am not on the Internet with full admin rights, like the
previous versions of the NT based O/S(s,) which are open by default
O/S(s) and wide-open to attack/compromise by default.
Is that so hard for you or anyone else to understand?
As long as you're not logged on as admin you should be fine. At most
I keep users at Power User rights.
While I understand running as admin is unsafe, simply having the
account enabled is not a security risk.
I am going to try to explain this again. The out of the box admin
account on Vista that is given to a user or any subsequent admin account
that is created on Vista with UAC enabled is NOT a full-rights-admin
account. It's only a Standard user account, which must be escalated to a
use the full-adminrights token to do anything requiring
admin-full-rights as an administrator.
I get it.
I don't need any escalation to admin. The problem is, what if there's
some malware. Some malware named "winenhancer." The user sees the UAC
prompt "Winenhancer must access the internet!" and the user clicks on yes.
So UAC only works when the user knows everything about the PC, which is
unrealistic for a standard dumb user whose job is to type out proposals
and reports.
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(microsoft.public.windows.vista.general) - Re: Validation of XP
... except to mention that UAC caused me to reboot to WinXP ... there shouldn't be any reason you need to run as admin to play a game. ... Windows doesn't do this or that natively, and one of those things is ... As for the default admin account, ...
(microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) - Re: I turned off UAC
... Vista users about virus or malware issues, not like you see on XP. ... I would rather have it enabled so that I am not on the Internet with full admin rights, like the previous versions of the NT based O/Swhich are open by default O/Sand wide-open to attack/compromise by default. ... The out of the box admin account on Vista that is given to a user or any subsequent admin account that is created on Vista with UAC enabled is NOT a full-rights-admin account. ...
(microsoft.public.windows.vista.general) - Re: I turned off UAC
... I would rather have it enabled so that I am not on the Internet with full admin rights, like the previous versions of the NT based O/Swhich are open by default O/Sand wide-open to attack/compromise by default. ... The out of the box admin account on Vista that is given to a user or any subsequent admin account that is created on Vista with UAC enabled is NOT a full-rights-admin account. ... what if there's some malware. ... However, network admins take that responsibly for this type of worker by using a network proxy that only allows the users to go to approved sites closing the attack vector and mitigating such damage, as its their responsibility to protect company's interest and not some office clerk, lock them down. ...
(microsoft.public.windows.vista.general) - Re: I turned off UAC
... Vista users about virus or malware issues, not like you see on XP. ... I would rather have it enabled so that I am not on the Internet with full admin rights, like the previous versions of the NT based O/Swhich are open by default O/Sand wide-open to attack/compromise by default. ... The out of the box admin account on Vista that is given to a user or any subsequent admin account that is created on Vista with UAC enabled is NOT a full-rights-admin account. ...
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