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Windows Vista UAC is actually good for something PDF Print
Sunday, 25 May 2008 15:19
Vista's UAC has a security feature has actually been shown to be the best defense against rootkits. AV-Test.org some months ago set out to find out how well antivirus programs fared against known rootkits and they found that pretty much all of the products they tested failed.

Of 30 rootkits thrown at XP anti-malware scanners, none of the seven AV suites found all 30, a similar story to the six web-based scanners assessed. Only four of the 14 specialized anti-rootkit tools managed a perfect score. For Vista, only six rootkits could run on the OS, but the testers had to turn off UAC to get even this far. Vista's UAC itself spotted everything thrown in front of it.



In a period of where Vista UAC has received criticism, Microsoft's programmers can at least point to evidence that UAC is efficient at stopping infections from happening automatically. If only UAC had an option to enable specific filtering, I don't need to be warned that I'm gonna open up device manager.
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