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Old 08-25-2010, 04:21 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead View Post
If XP had a UAC then perhaps H&L may not have been infected by this, it would not have been able to change those files without the alert popping up.

That warning SHOULD come up every time you update. It is supposed to activate when anything tries to update files in system folders, registry or "Program Files". No recent programs should ever be regularly updating anything in those places. If it is a legacy program then perhaps that may happen, but then if you trust it you can just give that app Administrator privileges and you won't be bothered.




And if your Firefox is asking for admin privileges every time it starts I would check out your plug ins and add ons. The only time Firefox ever bugs me is for upgrades to the browser itself.
Nah, I shut off all my plug ins and add ons and it still required UAC permission every time I opened Firefox. This only happened on 64 bit and it did the same on my laptop (64 bit also) but not on my 32 bit computer. Searching the net there were others with the same problem and I went to the Firefox forum but there was no solution, although the last Firefox version seems to have fixed it.

When I had UAC on, I still got a virus although it was my own stupidity and lack of sleep, by not logging off instead of trying to close a suspicious pop up. MSE cleaned it up right away though.
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