User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 phishing campaign targeting organizations in Eastern Europe is leveraging an old Windows User Account Control (UAC) bypass technique to drop the Remcos remote access Trojan (RAT), to perform cyber ...

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 ...

A well-known adware program is preventing users from installing antivirus products by leveraging a Windows feature that was designed for security. The program, known as Vonteera, abuses the digital ...

After the August updates, unexpected User Account Control prompts are appearing more frequently in Windows. Microsoft is making some adjustments. The August security updates for Windows desktop ...

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 ...

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 ...