On 23/12/10 11:22, Mark Rogers wrote:
This isn't much different from a default Ubuntu install which gives the first user access to everything, albeit having to re-enter their login password. It seems to me to be a reasonable compromise for home users; if there is no system admin then the owner of the system has to be able to do everything (if only so that when someone who knows what they're doing supports them over the phone they can do what is needed).
No I think the Ubuntu model is far better, asking for the password means that UAC isn't just putting another "next" button in the way of a user that blindly clicks "install now" "next" "next" "I agree" "finish".
Of course a number of people would at in that case just blindly type in their password, but we can't account for that level of stupidity. Let's just catch the ones that don't read all the "computery jargon" but might stop and think when something asks for a password.
As well as Ubuntu this model has done ok at protecting OSX for a while now, and I don't buy the "not a big enough target" thing because there is a huge and rapidly growing base of OSX machines out there and most of them have no malware protection. If it was as easy to exploit then it would be rampant with malware now.