On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:07, Dave Watts wrote: > How is this any different from anything else? Fortunately, most users won't > be able to figure out how to disable UAC, I suspect.
It'll be interesting to see how many computers ship with it off because it's very broken. > > As I said, it's not what users do that bothers me, it's the > > non-user related holes. > > The remote attack surface for a patched Windows XP SP2 machine with the > Windows firewall enabled is pretty small. I have every reason to expect the > attack surface for Vista to be as small or smaller. It may be. But there's the whole 'packet of death' thing that's *built into it as a feature*. > doesn't mean that users can't do stupid things that will get their machines > compromised. So I'm not sure why you'd be so unconcerned with user > security. I very concerened about both, don't get me wrong ! -- Tom Chiverton Helping to interactively innovate impactful communities **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262022 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
