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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Windows 7 beta UAC completely vulnerable to malware

From TG Daily -

A flaw in Windows 7 beta and Microsoft's User Account Control (UAC) has been discovered that allows its protection to be defeated by any malware which happens to infect the system. The malware needs only to send a series of false keystrokes from a VB script to activate the UAC dialog, move the slider bar to the disable position, and then save the changes. After that, the program can access protected functions or even reboot the system, thereby gaining full total system access on restart.

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