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Details on Refining Vista's User Control
borgboy writes "Windows Vista has gotten a lot of negative press recently following the release of the latest beta, especially regarding excessive prompting for privilege escalation for seemingly common activities. On his blog, Steve Hiskey, the Lead Program Manager for User Account Control in the Windows Security Core group, details what the issues with the excessive prompting are, what the design goals of the feature are, and how they plan to achieve them. Briefly - they know the excessive prompting is a royal pain, they know that have to reduce it to an absolute minimum to be both productive AND an effective security risk mitigation measure, and they want as much feedback as they can get on the beta."
How about if you add something extra to make sure no "malware" lands up on my system? Can you do that?
In a word, no. How is the OS supposed to know that that cute little systray weather forecast app you downloaded and installed is actually a trojan?
As long as a user can download and install/run software, the system is vulnerable, and there's nothing it can do about it.
It's official. Most of you are morons.