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• The Great UAC Debate of 2009 Is Over

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Feb 05 2009, 10:48 PM

  Filed under: Vulnerabilities, User Account Control, Feedback, Beta Testing, Betas, Windows 7

  I have been appalled at what has taken place over the last week. And now that it is over, I want to talk about it… because something needs to be done. The utter fiasco that spilled out into the blogosphere should never have happened. In case you’ve been
  

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• The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Sep 06 2007, 07:24 PM

  Filed under: Windows Vista Beta 1, Windows Vista, User Account Control, Windows Server "Longhorn"

  TechNet Magazine has a great article this month about UAC . UAC was not deliberately designed to be the most annoying feature in the history of Windows. Rather, this set of technologies was designed to set us on a path where users do not need to expose
  

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• Symantec Anti-UAC Product is a Very Bad Idea

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jan 10 2007, 10:48 AM

  Filed under: User Account Control, Symantec

  Symantec seems to think that Vista's User Account Control prompts people too much, and wants to make more of the security decisions for you . So, lemme get this straight: Symantec launched a three - part b!tchfest (with reports all penned by Joris Evers
  

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