Microsoft Corp.’s plans to change a controversial security feature in Windows 7 are only cosmetic, nothing more than “lipstick on UAC,” a developer of enterprise rights management tools said today.

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release candidate. “We are ...

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and that ...

Wow, that was a fast turn around from Microsoft, something we’re definitely not used to. Microsoft quickly changed their position on the UAC notification default setting issue in Windows 7, due to the ...

Microsoft developer Long Zheng, author of the blog istartedsomething, on Friday posted a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability in the Windows 7 beta, and said it stemmed from Microsoft's efforts to ...

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

Citing a Microsoft document, he said the company won't fix UAC, which has a flaw that allows a remote user to take over a PC The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC (the ...

Microsoft is denying that there is a security hole in the https://www.pcworld.com/video/id,904-page,1-bid,0/video.html?tk=rel_newsof Windows 7 after a blogger ...

I'm trying to fix my wife's computer. I need registry access. When I try to launch it, I get the regular UAC prompt. It transitions to the dark background and shows the standard UAC prompt and I click ...

The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security vulnerability in Windows 7’s User Account Control (UAC) feature claims it still exists and that Microsoft won’t fix it, even as the ...

A blogger claims to have found a vulnerability in Window 7's UAC, but Microsoft says the feature cannot be exploited unless there is already malicious code running on the machine Microsoft is denying ...