[Skybird]

Hottentot: "The point was that I never had to tell XP to STFU."

Skybird: "Because XP did not have that security feature. Mind you, it is a security feature, like there are also some more security features that 7 has and XP not."

Hottentot: "Or it expected me to have a brain."

Skybird: wondering. Frowning eyebrows and still wondering. Then: "Some time ago I was reading in a forum on malware, and there was this user who seriously boasted with that the never uses firewall and anti-virus, instead avoids threats by practicing what he called "intelligent surfing. (...) "

Hottentot: "So now me saying that I don't like being held in hand becomes synonymous to all that? I can see clearly enough where this is going. "



I don't see the problem. Maybe you see where this is going. But since ""or it expected me to have a brain" I did not even know anymore where it was coming from. The lack of a security feature due to years-earlier release is not linked to that being a brain thing.

I just said that UAC is a security feature. It is meant to limit the spread of an infection due to the current user account having limited rights only, or hinder a malware to gain control of software installed that the user currently logged in has limited or no rights for. That way, the infestation process gets hindred, slowed down. Or the malware must become more active to overcome these obstacles, raising the probability that one of your scanners smells the smoke in the air. - And I did not say that I assume you were that other user from that other forum. I just wanted to make clear that you cannot avoid threats by using your brain exclusively - that you also need some tools and procedures - like UAC for example. You cannot defend yourself against drive by downloads by choosing to surf "smartly", because you do not know which sites are infested. And it is not only the obviously suspicious sites. Unfortunately. That is where that guy simply was wrong, and misled.