Microsoft has agreed to fix the controversial User Account Control security setting in its Windows 7 operating system.
Jon DeVaan, Windows core operating system senior vice president, and Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Windows, said in a blog posting that Microsoft will increase the protection around the UAC component in the upcoming version of Windows.
The security of UAC became a hot topic with developers and early users of the operating system after a pair of researchers posted a proof-of-concept sample which was said to completely disable UAC protection without user notification.
Microsoft later responded to the reports, claiming that it was not a true security vulnerability and that a user would have to be already infected for the attack to work.
In the latest statement on the issue, however, Microsoft has apologised for the way the situation was handled.
“We said we thought we were bound to make a mistake in the process of designing and blogging about Windows 7,” Sinofsky and DeVaan wrote. “We want to continue the dialogue, and hopefully everyone recognises that engineering, perhaps especially engineering Windows 7, is sometimes going to be a lively discussion with a broad spectrum of viewpoints expressed.”
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