Microsoft changes Windows 7 UAC after new exploit code surfaces

[Airbot]

February 4, 2009 (Computerworld) A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and which one of its software engineers said would be fixed in the beta.
Today, however, the company said it had addressed the issue in post-beta builds that have not yet been released to the public.

more: Microsoft changes Windows 7 UAC after new exploit code surfaces

 

[pooch]

the company said it had addressed the issue in post-beta builds that have not yet been released to the public.http://www.computerworld.com/action...rticleId=9127392&taxonomyId=125&intsrc=kc_top

Well that's handy isn't it

 

[garysgold]

Guess we'll have to wait.

 

[Dragor1]

Question: Does UAC "remember" which programs you have allowed to be run? I think it would be better to have it this way, don't you think? It could even be taken one step further by "remembering" what actions of a program are allowed for example opening was allowed before but ig you try saving, then UAC would prompt you and then never agin, sorta like that!

 

[limneos]

Question: Does UAC "remember" which programs you have allowed to be run? I think it would be better to have it this way, don't you think? It could even be taken one step further by "remembering" what actions of a program are allowed for example opening was allowed before but ig you try saving, then UAC would prompt you and then never agin, sorta like that!

And then any malicious application would just "read" from the registry the allowed apps and rename itself to them... I think there's a reason they haven't included an "remember my decision" option.

 

[Dragor1]

And then any malicious application would just "read" from the registry the allowed apps and rename itself to them... I think there's a reason they haven't included an "remember my decision" option.

If thats the case, then the option to remember that a certain program to allow access to the internet via firewall should also be flawed!

Afterall, worms and viruses can do that as well, can't they?

The reason I said that thing in my previous post is so that UAC should become less "intrusive" so that people are not frustrated by it but welcome it as an actual seurity feature as they have accepted prompts by firewalls as I mentioned!

Thanks!

 

[dmex]

Question: Does UAC "remember" which programs you have allowed to be run? I think it would be better to have it this way, don't you think? It could even be taken one step further by "remembering" what actions of a program are allowed for example opening was allowed before but ig you try saving, then UAC would prompt you and then never agin, sorta like that!

Microsoft was threatened by OEMs during the PDC in 2005 after they demo`ed Vista beta2 saying they would use this "White list" for all their programs during setup because they didnt want UAC, they didnt like UAC so they would bypass UAC...

Since this was something Microsoft didn't want happening they removed it.

You can use the Task Scheduler to run applications without UAC and create a desktop shortcut to launch the task, while this isn't exactly a "White list" it does the exact same thing but was designed exactly the same