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Posted By TechnologyExpert 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyI wrote earlier about a "hole" in Windows 7's new User Account Control (UAC) behavior which would allow malware to disable UAC without user notification. On Wednesday a new flaw was exposed, one in which malware could easily "elevate" themselves to full administrative privileges without UAC prompts or turning UAC off.
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