When I try to install things in Vista

[Rebelius]

EDIT: btw. what would happen if I'd visited asus.com, on XP, or without UAC enabled. Would this code have automatically run/installed? Or would it have been blocked anyway, and I'd have known nothing about it?

It would ask you if you wanted to install Adobe Flash Player Installer by Adobe Systems Incorporated and let you click a link that says "This digital signature is OK" and shows you the timestamp from VeriSign etc etc.

instead of just saying "Something's happening - you're going to have to click "let it happen" to find out what though".

Seriously, that's retarded.

P.S. it just worked in Firefox.

 

[V1N]

It would ask you if you wanted to install Adobe Flash Player Installer by Adobe Systems Incorporated and let you click a link that says "This digital signature is OK" and shows you the timestamp from VeriSign etc etc.

instead of just saying "Something's happening - you're going to have to click "let it happen" to find out what though".

Seriously, that's retarded.

P.S. it just worked in Firefox.

lol, is that what it is?
Funny, never had a problem when other sites wanted to install Flash, or other legit plugin. Just asus.com. It doesn't identify what it wants to install at all.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Hello Caged, I am not trying to be a ""White Knight" of User Account Control at all, I just wanted to make sure I understood the situation regardless of what it is the best I can before commenting that's all.

One of the main problems with Vista as many people know is the misinformation about the OS and that it's only a pretty interface. Fire_wizard, just like Nathan_E, are trying to dispel false rumours and make sure everyone has a fully informed choice about their configuration. How can that be a bad thing?

Burnsy

 

[Dolph]

One of the main problems with Vista as many people know is the misinformation about the OS and that it's only a pretty interface. Fire_wizard, just like Nathan_E, are trying to dispel false rumours and make sure everyone has a fully informed choice about their configuration. How can that be a bad thing?

Burnsy

Because too many people on here think they understand software and good practices when they really don't, and therefore they object when people point out their lack of knowledge and bad decisions?

That's the only reason I can think of anyway. These are the people that caused UAC to be necessary by running as admin all the time, and they're also the first people to moan about it.