UAC, also known as User Account Control, is a security feature that was firstly presented in Windows Vista. It contains several security subsystems that are intended to protect computer from different kinds of threats like malicious programs, rootkits and privacy breakers. The most visible part of UAC are security alerts that appear when you try to run some program or access some feature that can change settings of the system or of other programs.
While the idea of UAC is good, its implementation has several visible problems such as UAC doesn’t remember user’s choice. You should click Continue for your favorite program over and over again when you launch it. UAC can’t determine if the program is malicious or not. It relies on user’s choice. So the user should become security expert himself to use UAC’s security features correctly. Sometimes UAC shows a lot of alerts for good programs and ordinary actions like changing desktop wallpaper that overwhelm user and disturb it a lot.
Several days after they first meet with UAC, users “learn” to click Continue without reading what alert says or just simply disabling UAC. From this moment you may think that you have no protection at all and User Account Control becomes almost useless.
Here is a free tool called Smart UAC Replacement to upgrade and improve User Account Control.
Smart UAC Replacement is free of all Microsoft Windows Vista UAC disadvantages and presents effective and up-to-date methods of providing first class security both for Windows Vista and for earlier versions of Windows operating system.
Smart UAC Replacement is easier and more comfortable than the standard Microsoft Windows UAC. You don’t need to answer the same questions all the time anymore. Tracking harmful and suspicious program processes allows Smart UAC Replacement to find unknown malicious programs and prevent their activity. Extensive database of more than 300 000 known threats raises your protection level even higher.
Key Features of Smart UAC Replacement:
Interception of all potentially dangerous actions to your computer. When a potentially dangerous action or program is recognized, an alert shows up. For each program you can allow or deny certain action or create an automatic rule for it with one mouse click. Tracking of harmful and suspicious program and preventing malicious activity using heuristic rules. Regularly updated database of more than 300 000 known threats which are automatically recognized and blocked. Fighting rootkits programs, which hide the fact of existence of malicious programs in your system. Smart UAC Replacement monitores installation of rootkits and prevents them from running. Ability to manually edit all security rules created earlier. Fully customizable User-friendly and handy interface Online database updates Full time professional support
You will get a blur color alert when Smart UAC intercepts unauthorized access to important parts of your system. Here is an example of Windows Media Player trying to make changes to the registry key that doesn’t belong to it.
When you run a malicious program such as a trojan embedded to a legitimate program, you will get a red alert warning.
If you’re a basic computer user, I recommend you to replace UAC rather than disabling it. The best part about Smart UAC Replacement is it works on Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 and Vista (only 32bit)! The minimum CPU and memory requirements to run Smart UAC Replacement in Windows 2000 is Pentium 300MHz + 64MB, Windows XP with Pentium 500MHz + 128MB and Vista with Pentium 1GHz + 512MB. Smart UAC Replacement is a freeware.
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