Comments on: Windows 7 UAC (User Access Control) Ineffective Against Malware

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:15:43 +0000

I don’t see the difference conceptually between the UAC and sudo (and I love sudo). But the technical differences are interesting; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control#Tasks_that_trigger_a_UAC_prompt
Realistically it is just another layer, if someone wrote a virus that executed from your home directory in Linux/MacOS no sudo would be needed, it could even make connections out on an arbitrary port, that being said it is a start over windows xp and its predecessors where most 3rd party programs where written to take account of the “everyone runs as admin” theory. Now that UAC are in, it has changed companies are programming stuff to not need write access to c:\windows\temp or c:\program files\

By: Rashid Azar

Rashid Azar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:07 +0000

UAC is just a lollypop in he mouth of noob users. I disabled this permanently.

By: cbrp1r8

cbrp1r8 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:27 +0000

I read the Sophos blog/report yesterday..got a chuckle out of it…score another one up for Winblows… :D

By: Hannibal

Hannibal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:43 +0000

Thanks for the info :)

By: Kitkat

Kitkat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:26:38 +0000

Play safe, work offline and do not plug any removable drives. This will prevent your PC get any virus. :p I personally do not use UAC. For me, a USB vaccine (from Panda usb) and good anti virus (NOD32) is sufficient to keep my PC clean and healthy :)