Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples
8 out of 10 malware samples tested on Windows 7 with default UAC (user access control) settings don't trigger a warning.
8 out of 10 malware samples tested on Windows 7 with default UAC (user access control) settings don't trigger a warning.
In what appears to be an attempt to provoke Apple to reconsider its currently passive position on the severity of the dubbed as "carpet bomb" flaw, a working Proof of Concept exploit code has been released at Liu Die Yu's security blog :Nitesh Dhanjani discovered that Safari for Windows puts downloads automatically to Desktop and argued this can potentially make a mess of Desktop, naming it the effect of "Safari Carpet Bomb".