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Security question - or - curiousity
Running Win 7 makes it easier to keep administrator permissions separate as compared to XP which was a bit of a PITA. So I just don't run as administrator.
And as a result I get a popup about once a day from Oracle asking if they can modify my HD with a JAVA update. This is of a piece with the Windows updates that have been part of MS's service for so very long. Microsoft doesn't even stop to ask if it's OK to futz with your computer - they just up and do it.
Now here is the thing that bugs me:
How is it that hackers have not figured out how to impersonate these services? Seems to me that this would be the holy grail.