Seeing File Virtualization in Action


Summary

Let me wrap up this chapter with a few final suggestions to the UAC haters in the crowd. First, I strongly recommend that you give it a try, a serious try. In my experience it really does become innocuous after a while. And take the time to help out your friends and family by showing them what it does and what it's intended to do. Please don't let your first answer to a UAC question be "oh, that's a stupid feature, let me show you how to make that go away forever," particularly to a nontechnical user. Second, before you say that UAC should work in some other way-"it should remember that I'm an admin for X minutes before prompting me again"-remember what you know about malware and how it works. When you consider that they had to install Secure Desktop because the bad guys might trick you into installing something that would fake out your mouse and perhaps keyboard, causing you to confirm when you intended to cancel, then you can see that the competition is tough, which means, as the saying goes, Microsoft's got to be tougher. Remember, malware gets smarter all the time! Worst of all, creating a UAC that catches only 80 percent of the common types of malware would be the worst of all things-something that annoys us but that does not protect us. (As we all know, only the airport security people get to do that kind of security and get paid for it.) Finally, remember that in the end analysis you can always turn it off, either from the GUI or group policies. If you find that you truly can't live with it then it's a moment's work to shut it off, but by making UAC the default behavior, Microsoft may save one of your friends or family members a heap of trouble!




Administering Windows Vista Security. The Big Surprises
Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises
ISBN: 0470108320
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 101

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