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[Nvyseal]

images/news/vista.jpgThe latest version of a well-reviewed third-party security policy enhancement system for Windows Vista claims to solve what its manufacturer characterizes as "not a secure solution" to a critical problem Windows historically had with administrator privileges on programs. But in the announcement of the upgrade earlier this week, a key Microsoft product manager is quoted as having acknowledged Vista's own take on the solution was not quite enough, effectively reversing his company's stand on User Account Control.

The product is BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5, and its key new feature is the ability to run Vista's UAC transparently without prompting the user for privilege elevation. In Monday's press release, Microsoft director of client security product management Austin Wilson is quoted as not only endorsing the product, but appearing to agree with BeyondTrust's key contention: that the UAC prompts were not only a nag but an insecure solution in itself.

"Microsoft recognizes that to help create a secure, auditable and compliant enterprise environment all users should be Standard Users and ideally not have administrative privileges or access to administrator passwords," the press release quotes Austin as saying.

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[hog]

How much time before this guy mysteriously loses his job?

[talker]

Hi Guys,
As for as I can tell, I have completely solved the UAC problem in Vista. It is easy to implement and is absolutely effective. As a matter of fact, its simplicity is only rivaled by something as simple a 1+1 equaling 2. I just don't install Vista on any of my systems. After I realized the simplicity of the solution, I even amazed myself ...talker.

[hog]

talker, on Aug 28 2007, 08:27 PM, said:

Hi Guys,
As for as I can tell, I have completely solved the UAC problem in Vista. It is easy to implement and is absolutely effective. As a matter of fact, its simplicity is only rivaled by something as simple a 1+1 equaling 2. I just don't install Vista on any of my systems. After I realized the simplicity of the solution, I even amazed myself ...talker.

HAHA! I love it!

[Christopholofigus]

talker, on Aug 28 2007, 05:27 PM, said:

Hi Guys,
As for as I can tell, I have completely solved the UAC problem in Vista. It is easy to implement and is absolutely effective. As a matter of fact, its simplicity is only rivaled by something as simple a 1+1 equaling 2. I just don't install Vista on any of my systems. After I realized the simplicity of the solution, I even amazed myself ...talker.

Ha ha ha...good to see ya 'round Talker!

[Visentinel]

But what if u want to use vista ? an even better solution is to just turn off UAC -.-

[WFO]

Visentinel, on Aug 29 2007, 01:59 AM, said:

But what if u want to use vista ? an even better solution is to just turn off UAC -.-

Yup! That's what I did. No more UAC nags.

[Christopholofigus]

Naw, just jog into the admin account and DELETE the user account. UAC hasn't nagged me once yet.

[talker]

scaramonga, on Aug 31 2007, 06:39 AM, said:

format c: /s

Brilliant...a solution perfect in its simplcity...talker.