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		Ntrails on Sept 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Metasploit 0-day exploit for IE 7, 8 & 9 on Wi... Ignoring that most users run their main windows login as administrator, if we pretend it's just a guest account, how much of an impediment would that to them disrupting any anti-virus and installing a some malware?

xtdx on Sept 17, 2012 [–]

Are you asking if anybody has a 0day windows kernel exploit? Or if lots of users are going to click okie dokie when the uac prompt comes up?

I'd say yes and yes.

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