Topic: Vista Security - interesting atricle

[Simon]

http://www.kaspersky.com/kl_ceo_vista

[Sandra]

I think that these features are quite good for inexperienced users or people with multi users of a pc, especially kids who may just click on anything and open it.

This new technology is known as User Account Control. This will ask the user for confirmation before any action that would require higher privileges is performed. User Account Control is designed to prevent events from taking place without user consent, a feature which was absent from previous versions of Windows.

Windows Vista also offers a protected mode for Internet Explorer 7.0 to make web surfing safer. In this mode, the browser works with a certain set of system restrictions that prevent malicious code from modifying key system areas. This does not protect against all types of attack, but reduces their likelihood. Internet Explorer 7.0 is also available for Windows XP, but without the option of protected mode

However I found it such a pain doing anything with my pc that I turned the user account control off and also the protected mode for IE7 

[Simon]

Well, at least you are given the option to turn the features off, Sandra.  I suppose they are attempting to cater for all types of user.