What feature in Windows alerts you when a program starts that could make changes requiring admin access?
- SECPOL
- UAC
- GPEDIT
- MSC
EXPLANATION
When Windows launched Vista in 2008,
it brought a large list of improvements over previous versions. One of
the largest selling points for Vista was the increased security that it
offered and one of the central aspects of this increased security is
UAC, but exactly what is UAC? Windows Vista has the
built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security
breeches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature
called User Account Control (UAC). The UAC forces
users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they
were regular users with no administrative privileges.
Whenever a user that is a member of
the local administrators group (or even a member of the Domain Admins
group if the computer is part of an Active Directory domain) tries to
perform a task that requires administrative privileges, the operating
system halts the operation and prompts the user to acknowledge it prior
to running the task.
Note the little shield icon next to
some of the items in the above screenshot. These items, if clicked upon,
will invoke the UAC prompt, and the following message is displayed:
In case the user is not a member of
the local administrators group and he or she tries to perform a task
that requires such privileges, they are prompted to enter the valid
credentials of an administrator (similar to the Run As command in
existing Windows XP/2003):
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