Microsoft Corp.’s plans to change a controversial security feature in Windows 7 are only cosmetic, nothing more than “lipstick on UAC,” a developer of enterprise rights management tools said today.

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release candidate. “We are ...

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and that ...

Microsoft is denying that there is a security hole in the User Account Control feature of Windows 7 after a blogger reported it last week and posted what he said was a fix for it. “I can tell you that ...

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

Citing a Microsoft document, he said the company won't fix UAC, which has a flaw that allows a remote user to take over a PC The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security ...

I'm trying to fix my wife's computer. I need registry access. When I try to launch it, I get the regular UAC prompt. It transitions to the dark background and shows the standard UAC prompt and I click ...

The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security vulnerability in Windows 7’s User Account Control (UAC) feature claims it still exists and that Microsoft won’t fix it, even as the ...