Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC (User Account Control) feature clearer and less of a pain to use.

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor Oct. 10, 2008 at 12:35 a.m. PT

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