Earlier this week, Tom's Hardware reported that there was an inherent security flaw in the newly renovated User Account Control (UAC) built into the current Windows 7 beta build 7000. Microsoft has listened to the critics and has released details of their fix to address the problem. At first Microsoft brushed off the issue as "by design," that is, it won't prompt users as much as in Vista which is what it was aiming for. But because the default UAC setting prevents changes to UAC from causing (source: tomsguide.com)
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