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The oldest trick in the book, literally, defeats UAC in Windows 7

Posted on January 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am

Though the fellows sounding the warning today are the best in the business, it didn’t take a lot of know-how to develop a proof-of-concept that the new User Access Control panel can be disabled by VBScript.

Windows 7 is still in the public beta process, and will be for some months to come. The purpose of true beta testing is to isolate and identify serious problems (we should know). So it’s to any researcher’s credit that a potentially threatening problem be brought into the open prior to Microsoft finalizing the code for everyday use.

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