Microsoft: All operating systems should use Vista's UAC security
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards.
Peter Watson, Microsoft Australia's chief security advisor, told Builder AU application providers are coming to terms with having programs and users run as non-administrative users on their Vista-run computers.
"There has been a lot of misunderstanding in the market around User Account Control (UAC). If you look at it from an architectural direction User Account Control is a great idea and strategically a direction that all operating systems and all technologies should be heading down," Watson said.
UAC is a security feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. The aim is to provide increased security when using Windows as a standard user by informing them when possible security breaches could be undertaken.
The technology has been a source of irritation for Vista users, with Apple going as far as to make fun of UAC in a recent commercial.
Watson conceded that "the problem you can never get around is if the user is just going to sit there and blindly hit the enter key" when UAC message dialogs pop up on screen.
In the second video above Watson said "Microsoft, purely because of its breadth and knowledge in the security space is ideally placed to deliver [security and antivirus] solutions".
As Vista and the latest edition of Office were developed with Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), "the number of exploits has been extremely low", he added.
Microsoft is offering their SDL process as training to developers as "an environment cannot insulate a developer from a security problem", Watson said.
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Comments(13)
uac is just an annoying pop-up ...
this is the culprit of bs.
i say, long live vbootkit!!! i hope we go it
working soon so finally users will gain control back on their machines.
i'm so
tired of these arrogant m$ statements, firstp pretending to sell their stupid vista for a
skyrocketing price, and then treat the cutomers like sheep.
after bios hacks,
first to activate vista, and later to say bye bye to drm control, there will be nothing
microsoft can do to prevent the failure vista will be financially.
indeed this
is the windows me ii, but less friendly, vista thinks as if "you are the virus" or the
stupid from the beginning.
uac!! yeah, sure when i die...
i just went back to windows xp after giving windows vista 4 momths of my wasted life.
actually i couldnt take it anymore: the nvidia crappy drivers, games working 10% slower,
vista hungry memory , cuteftp not fixing there stupid errors...
anyhow back to
xp till i find that drivers issues and games work better..
bha... uac = sudo in linux... but linux works better
"an environment cannot insulate a developer from a security problem." right, microsoft
is the security problem.
hey, i am wondering if hp openvms engineering is going to
add this microsoft shit into openvms. considering how much crap hp produced over the past
few years, i guess they will! shit.
you know those funny pc/mac commercials on tv? have you seen the one where they make fun
of uac security? here's a link to the commercial on apple's website:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
once you get there, find the commercial
called "security."
uac is a double edged sword.
on one side it can be used as a digital framework
for admission of guilt of the actions you do, and on the other allows ms a loophole to
blame issues on the user, as oppose to admitting and fixing their failure in design.
ie.
1..virus infects your pc - you allowed it
2..security issue
found, ms don't run this program, and then they can delay fixing it.
mac is supposed to be unviolable because it's used only by a small user community and no
one has interest in hackin it.
unix is the same thing. nothing it's perfect nor
indestructible. if someone wants to hack something it's just a matter of time.
but... yes sudo is better than uac.
guys, uac wasn't the big evil military
corp in doom? xd
uac was the first thing i disabled after installing vista. that's because i know my way
around computers and i'm the only one using it. and a more annoying feature is hard to
find.
dued uac is a pain in the ass no one wud lyk it evry fukin time u open sumthing up!
...people turning off vista security "uac" first and complaining should go to hell and
stay there forever!
macs are over expensive, ugly , can't get spare parts or upgrades easily and there
isn't exactly a great range of software/mags!
paul
word..
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