[pchelpers] Re: Windows 7
- From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Mandi <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:27:28 -0600
Hi Mandi,
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 11:02:08 PM, you wrote:
M> I'm not sure having a UAC remember your responses would be a good
M> thing. If you were to get malware that tried to do something that
M> you've already said "it's ok to do this, and remember that it's ok"
M> , then the malware would be able to do it and it could harm your
M> computer.
I only do that for certain relatively trivial things.
Windows 7 takes a different approach; it has an option where all of
the trivial things (Windows settings) are pre-approved.
--Scott.
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