Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Feb 2009 10:36 UTC
You have to hand it to them: Microsoft has made an excellent marketing move the last couple of days. Remember the UAC issue we reported on earlier? It turned out that changing UAC settings did not actually trigger a UAC dialog, allowing scripts and malware to disable UAC altogether without the user ever noticing anything - obviously leaving the system wide open. After stating numerous times the company wouldn't do anything about this issue, they have now done a complete 180, and will fix UAC to work as many had already advised. A brilliant marketing ploy right there.
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2008-01-20
I wouldn't get too excited about this..
Many Linux distro's STILL maintain a 15 minute sudo timeout (apparently ubuntu is one of them), which means any program (virus or otherwise), can sit there and wait until there's an open sudo session available, and then get admin privs without a password. Some linux distro's are still calling that a feature unfortunately (so they are no better then Microsoft).
But yeah, its about time Microsoft fixed this stupidity. UAC is certainly a good thing, but that broken behavior would have made it as insecure as Windows XP. Good to see they stopped playing politics and caved in.
Btw, at least they did a 180degrees... I wouldn't say its a marketing ploy though (not sure where the author came up with that BS from).
Either way, I don't care as long as its fixed.