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Totally unscientifically, I have carried out a poll of people who like UAC (okay, a few security geeks like myself), and those who hate UAC - mostly my wife. Something struck me as both a surprising common factor, and also a rather obvious explanation of why the two opinions are so polarised. [Note for...
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I heard a complaint the other day about UAC - User Account Control - that was new to me. Let's face it, as a Security MVP, I hear a lot of complaints about UAC - not least from my wife, who isn't happy with the idea that she can be logged on as an administrator, but she isn't really an administrator...
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I've been trying back and forth to get CS-RCS Pro , a version control suite, to work on Windows Vista. I like CS-RCS Pro for a number of reasons: Files stored in CS-RCS Pro are kept in a simple format, open and well-documented. As a result, if I ever have to move away from CS-RCS Pro (say, for instance...
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First, the good news - it's not a flaw in the operation of Windows Firewall on Windows Vista. It's a design feature, it makes sense, and it fits in with the principle that the firewall should keep out unsolicited traffic. It's not really a hole, but I thought I'd grab your attention....
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[... or administrator, or whatever] I like Roger Grimes, he's a nice guy, and he generally makes me think about what he has to say. That's a good thing, because otherwise he'd either be part of the same choir as me, or he'd be the sort of guy whose ideas I dismiss with a wave of the paw...
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I've been working lately on a couple of IPv6-related projects. First, there's a chapter for an upcoming book, and second, there's the effort to make WFTPD and WFTPD Pro work on IPv6, since it's enabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 [more on that in a future post...
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Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible portion of a system-wide and company-wide approach...
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Over the last several days, I've been getting more and more requests for my updated Wireless PC Lock software that I described way back last year . Possibly, it's because of stories like this one : At New York-based Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young, the security department confiscates...
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Here I am at TechEd, and I want to connect back home. No problem - I can use a VPN, because I have one set up on my server back at home. [Perhaps that's not normal, but I'm a geek] Now I want to browse my home network, partly because I want to see what's on my Media Centre back at home. Here's...
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Subtitled: Don't believe everything you hear at TechEd. I was inspired by my "empty DACL" issue , and what I remembered of Jesper's "Is That Application Really Secure?" talk from last June's Microsoft Tech-Ed conference, to test whether my security issue was caused by...