Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release candidate. “We are ...

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and that ...

Introduced with Windows Vista, UAC boosts security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels in order to limit the impact of malicious code, but many users ended up ...