This supposed to happen? ( Urgent)

Give permission? Do you have UAC enabled? I recommend disabling it as it's not worth all the trouble.RK-Mara

Agreed. Anyone who is a PC Gamer should just turn UAC off and leave it off. It only protects you from your own stupidity imho. A good AV and a good firewall and some intelligence on your part should be enough to protect you from anything that UAC is supposedly protecting you from. Seriously, do you need software that is constantly asking you "are you sure you want to do that?" No sh** I do, I clicked it, didn't I? UAC causes more problems that it prevents and it's annoying.

Don't listen to these guys and turn UAC off. I don't see why you would need to give elevate any steam game though. Are you sure it was a UAC prompt?

You can change the UAC behavior to elevate without prompt without completely turning UAC off. That way you don't lose all the UAC security features. Go to admin tools - local secutiry policy - UAC: Behavior of the elevation.

Don't listen to these guys and turn UAC off. I don't see why you would need to give elevate any steam game though. Are you sure it was a UAC prompt?

You can change the UAC behavior to elevate without prompt without completely turning UAC off. That way you don't lose all the UAC security features. Go to admin tools - local secutiry policy - UAC: Behavior of the elevation.

Deihmos

What "security features"? UAC on a machine that also has good AV and firewall protections does nothing but prevent idiots from messing up their machines. Name one thing that UAC protects your PC from other than stupidity. You won't be able to, because there isn't one. Meanwhile it adds a layer of inconvenience AND uses up system resources to no purposes, and it causes various bugs and problems, including crashes, in quite a few games.

Hardcore PC Gamers disable UAC (as well as quite a few other useless windows services) at the very least just to increase performance.

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]

Don't listen to these guys and turn UAC off. I don't see why you would need to give elevate any steam game though. Are you sure it was a UAC prompt?

You can change the UAC behavior to elevate without prompt without completely turning UAC off. That way you don't lose all the UAC security features. Go to admin tools - local secutiry policy - UAC: Behavior of the elevation.

schesak

What "security features"? UAC on a machine that also has good AV and firewall protections does nothing but prevent idiots from messing up their machines. Name one thing that UAC protects your PC from other than stupidity?

An AV can only protect you from known threats but with UAC you have total control over what has admin rights and what doesn't. For a virus/malware to be effective it needs admin rights. You can always disable the prompt so all programs are elevated without notification. Turning off UAC completely turns off IE Protected mode and that feature is good to have.

IF you use firefox then it wouldn't matter because they don't support it as yet which is probably why they had more exploits than vista and xp combined over the past year. What protected mode does is prevent malware from modifying or deleting your data and limits rogue programs to a read-only mode of access to your hard drive.

Do some reading you will learn a lot.

An AV can only protect you from known threats but with UAC you have total control over what has admin rights and what doesn't. For a virus/malware to be effective it needs admin rights. You can always disable the prompt so all programs are elevated without notification. Turning off UAC completely turns off IE Protected mode and that feature is good to have.

IF you use firefox then it wouldn't matter because they don't support it as yet which is probably why they had more exploits than vista and xp combined over the past year. What protected mode does is prevent malware from modifying or deleting your data and limits rogue programs to a read-only mode of access to your hard drive.

Do some reading you will learn a lot.

Deihmos

Maybe you should get better AV protection, as mine protects me from more than just "known threats". Most of the good AV software does these days. Where've you been?

While we are on that subject, how did this Malware get on my computer in the first place in your theoretical world where it gets past my AV software? I have a firewall running too it certainly didn't just "show up". And who told it that it could run? Oh.. you are assuming that I am STUPID enough to download/install crap that I don't know for sure if it is safe in the first place. Thank you for proving my point that UAC protects you from nothing but stupidity if you have both AV and firewall as well.

As far as doing some reading, I think perhaps you are the one that needs to do that. It seems to me that your reading list has consisted of the "short list" approved by Microsoft rather than a comprehensive collection that gives you a broader understanding of the subject.

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]

An AV can only protect you from known threats but with UAC you have total control over what has admin rights and what doesn't. For a virus/malware to be effective it needs admin rights. You can always disable the promptso all programs are elevated without notification. Turning off UAC completely turns off IE Protected mode and that feature is good to have.

IF you use firefox then it wouldn't matter because they don't support it as yet which is probably why they had more exploits than vista and xp combined over the past year. What protected mode does is prevent malware from modifying or deleting your data and limits rogue programs to a read-only mode of access to your hard drive.

Do some reading you will learn a lot.

schesak

Maybe you should get better AV protection, as mine protects me from more than just "known threats". Most of the good AV software does these days. Where've you been?

While we are on that subject, how did this Malware get on my computer in the first place in your theoretical world where it gets past my AV software? I have a firewall running too it certainly didn't just "show up". And who told it that it could run? Oh.. you are assuming that I am STUPID enough to download/install crap that I don't know for sure if it is safe in the first place. Thank you for proving my point that UAC protects you from nothing but stupidity if you have both AV and firewall as well.

As far as doing some reading, I think perhaps you are the one that needs to do that. It seems to me that your reading list has consisted of the "short list" approved by Microsoft rather than a comprehensive collection that gives you a broader understanding of the subject.

Man do some reading. UAC cannotstop malware from getting on your computer it only helps prevent any damage being done since no system files can be changed without your knowledge. They are putting viruses in installers and some anti-virus programs don't spot them until you click install. I have seen this with Nod32 antivirus.

If you think an AV can protect from some of the malicious codes on the internet then so be it. There have been many cases where trust worthy websites were hacked and I guess you miss the part that you can disable the prompt so all programs are elevated without notification. Let this thread die now.

You are probably one of those that think Firefox is a more secure browser. Maybe it got better with version 3 but right now IE7 with Vista is more secure because of protected mode. I did read they are working on adding it to firefox.