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 ...

Introduced with Windows Vista, UAC boosts security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels in order to limit the impact of malicious code, but many users ended up ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC (the ...

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.

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 ...