heh, I meant to post here.
I disabled UAC when I first used vista, but I "forgot" to after a clean reinstall (No ADG, NOT related to a infection
), and really didn't find it all that annoying.
First off, it's Really MS fixing a long-standing issue with Windows- that in order to do anything useful you almost always have to run as an administrator. People had been whining and whining about this- and what happens when MS finally adds it? they whine and whine about that. Make up your freaking mind people!
i am tierd of right click
and run as admin
i am tierd of pop up boxes
there is only one user account
and i have virus and firewall
i see no reason to have it on
A:) Not all malware will trigger a Anti-virus. However in order to make Malicious changes they WILL need Administrator privileges. A prime example being that many poor souls might download something they think to be a Installer, or whatnot for their game or program. Running it on XP results in an infection- with UAC enabled in Vista you might get a pop-up saying that "C:\Temp\ADDEFFDG.EXE" requires administrator privileges. That's going to raise an eyebrow, I think.
For example, if you open a program without admin privilages, a popup box appears "Do you want to open this program?" - after I just double clicked the icon to open it! Now on the other hand, when programs that open without your permission, it's a great feature. Although, I haven't seen TweakUAC before until now and it does look quite useful. It shouldn't take a third party company to come up with that, though.
UAC has no idea that you double-clicked it in explorer- Explorer simply runs "ShellExecuteEx" On it, which in turn invokes a cascade of security related functions that end up displaying the UAC prompt.
Of course MS
could do that, but then they always get in trouble when they make something too integrated.
