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Haven't these 2 exploits been fixed in Windows 7 RTM? The articles seem to be dated 2009 and before W7 RTM was released. See this post for more information: blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/02/05/…
– Joe Schmoe
Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 21:21
As I read the blog entry you linked to, they've just made sure that changing UAC level, will trigger UAC confirmation too (which sounds sensible). As per Leo's website (which I linked to): "Everything below still applies to the final retail release of Windows 7 (and all updates as of 14/Sep/2011)". I know lots of patches have been released since, but it doesn't sounds like it's considered a security hole and MS may not want to patch it ("this behavior is by design")?
– abstrask
Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 21:41
Yes, you are correct. I missed that important part - that it still applies as of 2011. I really should have paid more attention.
– Joe Schmoe
Commented Jan 19, 2014 at 21:46
The link to the informative post on the Windows blog is dead now. I have updated the link so it points to the last crawl at archive.org
– abstrask
Commented Aug 20, 2014 at 9:56
As of today there is an option in Windows 10 to disable UAC auto-elevation, which will show the prompt for every admin task.
– Hey
Commented May 24, 2017 at 12:43

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