Daniel Wissa's .NET Journey - Vista Security Dialogs

Sunday, June 11, 2006

So have you been using Vista for a while now and are sick of all those security dialog warnings from UAC. Well you can change that and disable warnings on things you know you executed hence reducing the habbit of auto-clicking continue. Mauricio posts on how to do this. Nice...

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Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:51:08 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

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Monday, June 12, 2006 2:12:47 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Disabling the administrator UAC Prompt for consent, and changing it to no prompt will silently elevate process priveleges from standard to admin when those processes need to. ie your malware will silently elevate - it won't just be things you know you executed

Still you are much better off from a security point of view of leaving UAC on and changing the prompting, rather than disabling the UAC feature all together

Cheers
Nathan

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Daniel Wissa is Software Developer living in Melbourne, Australia.

Starting his journey in IT at a very young age, Daniel has already accomplished a number of things.

In his second year as a Computer Science student at the University of Canterbury, Daniel was the first person to become a Microsoft Student Ambassador at the University. Following on from his work as a Microsoft Student Ambassador at Canterbury, Daniel became part of a global Student Advisory Board a team a of students from all around the world that helped bring the current version of theSpoke.

In 2005, Daniel completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Information Systems and Technology while still only 20 years of age. 2005 was also the year when he started his blog to share his thoughts about technology and related topics. Daniel believes that blogging is a powerful way of sharing opinion and communicating ideas to people across the globe.

Daniel has always been interested in Microsoft technologies since being at university and in 2006 he completed the Microsoft Certified Application Developer .NET certification. Taking his interest in Microsoft stuff even further, he currently co-leads the Christchurch .NET usergroup.