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from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-02-16 20:47:56
subject: Re: Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Rich"  wrote in message news:45d3f14d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> There is no gaining of admin privileges.  When a setup program
> without a manifest declaring its intended behavior is run a
> prompt is presented to the user.  That is the key.  Without this
> detection the program would otherwise have run as normal and
> would likely have silently failed.

Ok that makes sense. So, if the user has turned off the UAC prompt, then
there would probably not be any automagic privilege escalation, but the
setup would just fail unless the user was running with admin rights - in
other words, without the UAC prompt it works just like Windows 2000 or XP,
right?



Antti Kurenniemi

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