Re: Administrator Accounts

[James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Vicky Røde wrote:
>
> > According to uac's own blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/), users will run
> > as a standard user even administrators. vista will be implementing
> > something similar to sudo to which i say, about time.
>
> So the security model of Vista is designed to deliberately (and
> irreversably??) break all those "mission critical" apps written way
> back before any cared that much about security (because they hadn't
> heard about that "Internet thing" yet) and all those more recent apps
> written by a pack of gibbons that (read my recent post in this thread
> for the rest...)??

Deliberate backwards-incompatibility wouldn't really surprise me. After
all, there's a business case there - more than can be said for some
of their latest ideas.

For instance, check out the Win64 file system redirector - needed because
somehow System32 is now the province of 64-bit DLLs. Funny, I would have
thought those would really suit a System64 directory...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win64/win64/file_system_redirector.asp

(Sounds like Win64's got a built-in rootkit! 32-bit virus scanners? Why
on earth would they want to see the filesystem as it really is?)

[Whups, sorry for OT-ness!]

James

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