Guest krzysiek Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hi I just found that secure desktop doesn't working as it should ( please correct me if I'm wrong ;] ) I thing that secure desktop has a hole.. If You run priviledged application You can switch to other window using alt+tab and UAC will be minimized style_emoticons/ I don't think is should be like that... I didn't tried yet, if is possible to send any messages to that window from other application, if Yes I think it is not a small hole, becouse programs can gives some permission to run priviledged applications.. I made small screen capute which shows that, but unfortunally when UAC works then capturing doesn't work, so You can see only blinking icon on the task bar. If You want You can see it on http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=7mI8gevNFHI But better is to try it style_emoticons/ What You think about it?? cU style_emoticons/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BillD Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 NO! "krzysiek" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hi I just found that secure desktop doesn't working as it should ( please > correct me if I'm wrong ;] ) I thing that secure desktop has a hole.. If You > run priviledged application You can switch to other window using alt+tab and > UAC will be minimized style_emoticons/ I don't think is should be like that... </span> It's a not a flaw, the UAC prompt will appear when you maximize the Window, you can't bypass it: http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/09/05/741318.aspx "Other improvements besides prompt reduction that we’ve made to Windows Vista RC1 are: UAC prompts will not “steal focus†from the user’s task. If the operating system cannot determine that the prompt was generated from the foreground window the current user is using, we will alert the user with a highlighted operation in the taskbar that an application is requesting elevated privileges. The user can select to elevate at his or her convenience and not be disrupted by an unplanned application elevation." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Louis Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 "krzysiek" <krzysiek@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio <span style="color:blue"> > Hi I just found that secure desktop doesn't working as it should ( please > correct me if I'm wrong ;] ) I thing that secure desktop has a hole.. If > You > run priviledged application You can switch to other window using alt+tab > and > UAC will be minimized style_emoticons/ I don't think is should be like that... I didn't > tried yet, if is possible to send any messages to that window from other > application, if Yes I think it is not a small hole, becouse programs can > gives some permission to run priviledged applications.. > > I made small screen capute which shows that, but unfortunally when UAC > works > then capturing doesn't work, so You can see only blinking icon on the task > bar. > If You want You can see it on http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=7mI8gevNFHI</span> The video is not very clear to me. My english is not so good and I may have missed something. Can you explain step by step what you did? Did you disable anything from the defaul Vista settings? Because, in my Vista, if I log with administrator privileges and I try to run applications that require the elevation, the "secure desktop" will work exactly as I read it should work: the background and desktop will became grey and inactive and the only active window is the UAC, and even clicking on alt+tab I can't focus any other opened program, like it seems you did on that video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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