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Kerry Brown
Jack Splat =(8) said:But that isn't why Microsoft added UAC at least not according to them.
They added it so that it was harder for any malicious programs to do
something bad. Again, it shouldn't have been an all or nothing features.
It is just Microsoft once again trying to control what we do with our
computer and how we do it. Until they allow me to decide what is and isn't
monitored UAC can go to hell right along with Microsoft and their poorly
implemented grandiose ideas.
This is not my understanding of UAC. UAC is a security measure that allows
users to either run as an administrator but have the the security of a
standard user or run as a standard user but allow them to run programs that
need administrator permissions without logging off and logging on as an
administrator. While this is also very useful at fighting malware the fact
that it stops a lot of malware is more of a side effect of good security
rather than a design goal of UAC. Security protects against many things
besides malware. Some things are user error, program bugs, malicious user,
etc..