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...
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...
[... 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...
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...
Windows NT 3.1 was released ... oh, back in the early to mid '90s. Ever since then, I've been aware that it supported Alternate Data Streams, also known as ADS, or in some technical documents that didn't make it to final review, Alternative Data Streams. This was added, I think, to support...
There's a little buzz going around right now over Microsoft's latest Security Advisory - "Vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 Could Allow Remote Code Execution". A few people are irritated simply that there's an attack doing the rounds, and yet there's no patch to download. Sure there's a patch - it...
17:45 - A couple drives down unfamiliar streets, looking for a place that they only believe is the right venue, based on an ability to throw GPS co-ordinates at Google Maps. [Yes, Google Maps, because I couldn't figure out how to do that with Live Maps - irony.] 17:50 - Arrival at a sign that, in the...
When you manage your personal certificates in Windows, the tool to use is Certificate Manager - you can access it either by running " certmgr.msc " to access your own personal certificate store, or by running MMC, the Microsoft Management Console, and choosing File | Add / Remove Snap-in to add the Certificates...