Re: [ros-dev] dealing with insecure-by-inattention Windows software

[Jasper van de Gronde]

KJKHyperion wrote:
>   Wesley Parish wrote:
>  
> >   "insecure-by-inattention" - by that I
> > mean software that must run as 
> >  super-user or otherwise (otherstupidly) it won't run at all.
> >  
>  read all you can find on the new security features in Windows Vista. The 
>  security model has been enhanced with various forms of Mandatory Access 
>  Control - among the many of them, the fact that all users (except 
>  System, i.e. services) are entirely powerless by default, even 
>  administrators, and a reauthentication is required every time privileges 
>  are needed (the user experience is pretty much identical to MacOSX) - 
>  and the application compatibility layer has been enhanced to the point 
>  it now fully implements a virtual filesystem view and a virtual registry 
>  view. 
Are you saying that with Vista it's possible to give a program its own 
virtual view of the system which it can read and modify to its heart's 
content without affecting other programs? That would be simply divine.