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."

Comments

Here's how to delete a file on Windows Vista

[ASkGNet]

Just a few clicks away
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Re:malware safeguards

[spongman]

the prompt appears on a sparate desktop, it's HWND isn't retrievable by any application, and the regular keyboard message pumping mechanism is bypassed.

unfortunately, this breaks the brilliant synergy2 tool temporarily...

Re:It's Still In Beta Folks!

[Tim C]

I don't think posting "lololololol!!!1! M$ suX0rz, Linux r0ck0rz!!!111!!" to slashdot counts as feedback.