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Vista: Mandatory Integrity Control

Steve Riley's posted a nice explaination of how Windows Vista's Mandatory Integrity Control works. This important technology is a core part of the way Windows Vista is architected to use low privilege wherever possible. It's one of those significant security changes that's hidden "under the covers" which will reduce your system's attack surface.

Internet Explorer 7 is denoted as "Internet Explorer 7+" on Windows Vista to signify it's adoption of benefits that are only available on the new platform. Under Windows XP Internet Explorer runs in the same context as the logged in user and therefore is able write to all areas of the file system as the user. If the user has administrative rights then Internet Explorer and potentially scripts and exectutables downloaded and exectuted by it are potentially able to reconfigure the system and introduce malware such as spyware, worms, viruses and cloaking technology such as root kits. (more)

How Windows Vista's Mandatory Integrity Control works (Steve Riley)

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