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Vista's UAC Security is Hopeless, says Symantec

Matthew Broersma writes on TechWorld (UK):

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC) is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said.

At a press presentation last week, Symantec vice president of engineering Rowan Trollope said Symantec's customers had found the feature so "chatty", that it was a burden on users, potentially creating new help-desk calls.

He said that personally he had found the feature so distracting he had finally turned it off - not a good sign for companies intending to use UAC to protect systems.

posted by Fergie @ 1/16/2007 10:28:00 AM