Surprisingly Attractive Hacker Discovers Huge Vista UAC Security Flaw

blogs.zdnet.com — The issue is that Vista automatically assumes that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with administrator privileges ? and gives the user no option to let them run without elevated privileges. This means that a freeware Tetris installer would be allowed to load kernel drivers. Basically, UAC is rendered completely worthless. Feb 13, 2007 View in Crawl 4