Comments on: A brief discussion of Windows Vista’s IE Protected Mode (and user/process level security)

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:09:30 +0000

Thanks for this. I use Vista business but find if I turn on protected mode the ie7 browser will not open. Is this me or the system?

By: Javier

Javier — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:30:48 +0000

Greetings from Paris

After removing spyware in my Vista Home edition machine I have the following side effect on my machine. Just to say if I run IE7 as an administrator all works properly so I suppose it is a permission problem.

Any file downloaded from any site vanishes upon completation. I have installed firefox and it works just fine. I have run all the adware, spyware, virus software to no avail. I think this is an IE problem since firefox works. I would, however, like to find a solution for this.
Thanks you very much for any help

I have done without success the following:
1. restore the initial options of IE7
2. from the command line I used the utility to restore the dammaged system files.

Yours sincerelly
Javier

pd. I looked on the net and I can see they are more people with this problem of disappear downloaded files!

I looked on the entire hard disk for the files without success!!

By: Nynaeve » Blog Archive » Why you shouldn’t touch ChangeWindowMessageFilter with a 10-ft pole…

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:06:43 +0000

[...] with respect to how the user interface operates is also a significant part of how UAC and Internet Explorer Protected Mode can claim be to be reasonably secure, despite displaying user interfaces from differing security [...]

By: Nynaeve » Blog Archive » Process-level security is not a particularly great way to enforce DRM when users own their own hardware.

Tue, 08 May 2007 05:05:52 +0000

[...] Recently, I discussed the basics of the new “process-level security” mechanism introduced with Windows Vista (integrity levels; otherwise known as “mandatory integrity control“, or MIC for short). [...]

By: Skywing

Skywing — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:54:33 +0000

It also plays a part in some of the DRM stuff on Vista, yes. I’m planning on revisiting that in particular at a later post…

By: ddebug

ddebug — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:56:13 +0000

Thanks, Ken! a very useful reading while the docum is still lacking…

Does the integrity concept cover also “protected processes” and other DRM stuff?

By: Skywing

Skywing — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:42:48 +0000

Haven’t heard of it before (or given it a try), so I can’t say whether it’s actually implemented in a secure fashion or not. It does sound like the default configuration still allows read access to everywhere, though, from what the front page on the site says.

By: Kyhwana

Kyhwana — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:05:22 +0000

See http://www.sandboxie.com for something that will let you run apps in their own sandboxes? I think you can setup each sandbox so that it can’t read files/etc..

By: If you don’t learn from the past . . . at Mental Rootkit

If you don’t learn from the past . . . at Mental Rootkit — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:06:45 +0000

[...] wrote a nice introductory article on the new integrity controls in Windows Vista. It is nice to see Mandatory Access Control, of [...]