Windows 7 UAC failure?
Nov 3rd, 2009 by Ryan Meyer
A Sophos blog today tested 10 unique incoming virus samples against Windows 7 UAC.
The results were dismaying, with UAC preventing infection of only a single virus. Two of the samples did not run on Windows 7 at all (one wasn’t Win32). The remaining 7 viruses reportedly infected Windows 7 with UAC enabled.
Sadly, Sophos Labs fails to provide detailed information about methodology. I suspect that most – if not all – of these infections target the local profile and would not be system wide.