Windows Vista UAC feature

One of the security improvements are extolling the most of Vista being the most critical. UAC (User Account Control) in order to resolve a senior vulnerabilities in how Windows controls the rights of users, but those who do not go saying that it is not strong enough and do not effectively design inappropriate.

Problem here is the role of account management. Best solution is to use the grant only when administrators perform tasks requested this right, the drivers installed (driver) device or change the parameters (registry). But reality shows, the default user usually log in with an administrator account, even with normal tasks. When users log in with administrator rights, and deep Trojan horse is wearing in Hoanh tung.

UAC attempt to repair this bad habit, the default software to run the more reduced. When an application try to do anything that requires administrator rights, UAC will prompt the user with the dialog box asked for permission to "improve" the application to have the right level or higher.

Unfortunately, UAC has split. For example, the computer set-up and installation services software is allowed to run with administrator rights fully as in the older version of Windows. Furthermore, Ollie Whitehouse, a security specialist Symantec's, but only the implementation file is provided with Vista can be used to "extravagant" UAC. Such problems related to administrator account is still there.

However, not only split up through the present mechanism of protection UAC, the confirmation dialog by UAC can troubles and hard to understand. You can find how to prohibit UAC from troubles, or can often considered the alert message and click OK but not thinking. Moreover, they can easily be cheated by the way of interest or fraud.

According to documents on Microsoft's UAC: "Windows support services provides many features to protect your system, but it requires the use of properly. The protection of safety of your system depends on your behavior , so think before you press ". In other words, the UAC setting responsibility for the safety of the system's use - difficult to absolutely secure.

Microsoft has many additional features for Windows Vista Help UAC addition, many features of it to increase security for the native operating system. But if the review is the only additional improvements are small compared with the previous version of Windows.

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