0 Windows 7 Security Hole Still Open

A security hole in Windows 7 identified by a blogger in January is still open and Microsoft do not appear to be that interested in closing it. The problem is with the User Account Control (UAC) functionality.

The purpose of UAC is to guard against malware - it warns the user when applications try to make changes to the computer but "proof of concept" code has been created that can remotely disable UAC without informing the user that this happened. Microsoft have so far started that this is a feature that has been included by design and, therefore, will not be fixed.