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Submission + - Vista Advanced Heuristics

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Register has an article on Program Names govern admin rights in Vista.

From the article :

"If Vista sees that you have created a Microsoft Visual C++ project with install in the project name, then that .exe will automatically require Admin Rights to run. Create exactly the same project, but call it, say, Fred, and the problem disappears"

And more :
"Windows Vista heuristically detects installation programs"... named install.exe...

AC Bryan"

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