TSGL: Vista UAC Warnings

[Steve Locke]

Vista's UAC Warnings Can't Be Trusted, Symantec Says
Hackers can trick Windows Vista's User Account Control
to hide malware, researcher found.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Thursday, February 22, 2007


Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC), a system
that Microsoft says makes the new operating system
safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn't be
completely trusted, a Symantec researcher said on
Wednesday. 

Ollie Whitehouse, an architect at Symantec's advanced
threats research team, first used a blog entry Tuesday
to point out how a hacker could use a file included
with Vista to disguise the UAC warning dialog in the
color associated with alerts generated by Windows
itself. 

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/129268-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

Steve