Re: Re: Circumventing Critical Security in Windows XP

[anonym@xxxxxxxxxx]

administrator level doesnt matter much when we talk about antivirus/firewall 
softwares because nowadays they have a builtin protection that will try to 
prevent they get disabled, no matter what is the user access rights over the 
system. if the software can be disabled, then the flaw is in the software 
itself, and is indeed a vulnerability.

ps: on Windows XP users by default have admin rights when created, the standard 
user is member of the administrators group. On Windows Vista and later the 
standard user is admin too but the UAC forces the user to have "user level" 
rights. but demonstration code has been published to bypass this protection, 
then again that kind of modification (the modification did by the sc command 
reflects in the registry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in which only admins can 
write data) will be possible.