That blog was released it seems under assumptions about Vista since when it was written, Vista was not out yet.
On new installs with one user, the single user (in this case my wife on her new laptop), is administrator. However, even though she is running as admin, UAC will continue to prompt when permission is necessary, vista doesn't assume just because you have admin rights, you want everything in that session run in admin rights. This is why Vista is so much more secure then XP..or one reason why. On a recent zdnet or pcmag test, vista with UAC running was the only thing to detect every rootkit thrown at it. Even with UAC off, it was difficult to get a rootkit installed. This is why UAC comes up on installations. Some older programs don't realize they need to request permission to install themselves, thus you can have issues unless you use the run as command. Mike On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > It pretty much says it in the first few paragraphs, but no, it isn't > explicit. > > Weirdly, it's very difficult to find something that states this explicitly. > This is as close as I can find: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=245 > > > -----Original Message----- > > That's a really long article. Does it make this claim somewhere? > > Because when I got my hands on the wife's new Vista x64 comp 2-3 days > > after her, she was running as the only named Admin. She wouldn't have > > changed anything unless prompted. I expected to find her as a User; > > she wasn't, so I changed it. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
