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Jimmy Brush said:Unfortunately, the security in Windows Vista is not "automatic"... it
requires third-party programs such as Norton to learn and follow the new
rules (as well as many old rules that they should have been following,
but many weren't).
If you run up against a problem where a program isn't asking you for
your admin power when you try to do something admin-y, this is either a
pre-vista program or the fault of whomever created the software.
While the new security model is pretty reasonable in most places, it
does have its rough edges, and you will mostly encounter these rough
edges while working with files and folders.
If you're the kind of person that doesn't like to save files inside your
user profile folder, or you have a multi-boot computer or use files that
you share between computers, you will probably encounter some issues
that will require modifying the security on the files.
I sincerely hope microsoft does something to make this experience much
less painful in the future.
OK, fair enough. I was thinking though, do the new Vista security settings
have a "program whitelist" functionality, kind of like Windows Firewall
exceptions? Something like the option to "give this program permission
automatically in the future" when propted to give permission to a program.
This doesn't seem to be obviously implemented, if at all.