Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Apr 2008 21:47 UTC
User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren't particularly zippy, given the screen redraw). Others don't mind UAC, but there's no doubt it's a controversial 'feature' of the OS. At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross. Cross had more to say than just that: Microsoft is going to put more emphasis on whitelisting.
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Fixing it for yourself or others? Because for my own systems (those that still have Windows as opposed to Linux or OS X), I just install the free version of Grisoft's antivirus package and Spybot. I find that with those two running the only virus I get is if I do something stupid (like the time I got Netsky from an email attachment I knew was infected but wanted to test my setup).
As for repairing other systems for people, strangely I find that a number of people in the area are well versed in how to protect their system. Its gotten to the point I haven't repaired a system overtaken with viruses in over a year or so. And most of those users have Windows XP without UAC.