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		grandalf on Aug 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says secu... I don't understand why in Windows Vista the security escalation dialog box has several different appearances depending on the context.

simonbrown on Aug 13, 2011 [–]

It's explained here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/03/30/19916...

grandalf on Aug 13, 2011 | [–]

interesting! thanks for posting that.

I still think it's bad design b/c it fails to train the average user to avoid false privilege escalation dialog boxes.

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