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."

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security feature that's needed by windows...

[abigsmurf]

Isn't excessive prompts, it's a feature that can let the user stop a certain process from running. How many regenerating virii and rootkits rely of automatically running an executable the second a dodgy process is closed to make it tricky to remove? If you could identify a malicious process and prevent windows from running it in the future. Removing virii that are running, even in safemode is a complete nightmare. A password protected feature that can prevent a process being run again the second it's closed would make the majority of agressive malware next to useless and far easier to remove. Although knowing microsoft they'll leave a security hole in and hackers will start doing things like disabling explorer.exe...