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UAC & secure desktop -- Is it a hole??


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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/

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Guest BillD

NO!

 

"krzysiek" wrote:

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> 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."

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"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.

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