Summary
Windows Vista is designed to be secure by default, but default settings don’t meet everyone’s needs. Additionally, the highly secure default settings can cause compatibility problems with applications not written specifically for Windows Vista. For these reasons, it’s important that you understand the client-security technologies built into Windows Vista and how to configure them.
The most significant security improvement is User Account Control (UAC). By default, both users and administrators are limited to Standard user privileges, which reduces the damage that malware could do if it were to successfully launch a process in the user context. If an application needs elevated privileges, UAC prompts the user to confirm the request or to ...
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