Windows Vista Security Not As Good As Hoped

Windows Vista has a feature Microsoft boast makes it very secure, this is the UAC (user account control), this is the box that pops up on your Vista operating system every time you try and do anything apart from breathe. It has been found out recently from Ollie Whitehouse, an architect at Symantec’s advanced threats research team that the SUPER SECURE Windows Vista UAC is not only flawed but can also be spoofed. When Ollie Whitehouse contacted Microsoft about this flaw, they did what they often do and just brushed him aside.

This basically means a malicious hacker could drop a dll (direct link library) file onto a Vista system and basically trick the operating system into thinking that its all ok and then make a call to execute other commands and when the UAC comes up it will give an innocent little notice asking you to just press “continue” for something just like the control panel.

More information can be found about this flaw here.

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