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Re: Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'


From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:52:25 -0800

Date sent:              Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:49:06 -0700
From:                   Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>

The most comical cases would be 
displaying Windows help, which would let you explore and run cmd.exe as 
system, for example.

And, basically, anything else you wanted to do.

But no, no fundamental rework of the message-passing mechanism. 

Ah.  Another security tool/policy, but still no reference monitor.

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