KavazovAngel: UAC + MSE + Windows Firewall + Common Sense. Best protection ever. ;)
By the way, the main purpose of UAC is not malware protection. :)
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It is unnecessary that you run so many security suites / programs. :p
I like my setup, and you like yours....
wpegg: No my point was back at your point. You asked the benefits you'd see from UAC. I then asked the benefits you see from AV. I'd say that you see the same result. Apparently nothing. This is because you don't see success in security, only failure.
Navagon: But I know what an AV does which is beneficial to me. That's the critical difference here. I don't know one benefit of UAC I don't already have - with the added benefit of lacking the complications UAC brings.
Despite my asking, nothing you've written so far has shed even the smallest glimmer of light on the subject. So I don't see why I'd be swayed. After all, you're right. I can't see for sure that UAC is doing what I'd want of it until it's proven that it's not.
Don't bother.....wpegg and a few others are UAC "fanboys"(for lack of a better term) it seems, who just want people to use the thing because they seem to think it's the bees knees.
Navagon: Yeah, but with an AV and firewall in place that's not really the case. In any case, I wasn't using "see" in a purely literal sense. I was asking about the benefits to me which don't seem to be something that could be perceived in any sense.
KavazovAngel: The benefit is user account control.
I can acheive similar results using the security settings/command lines on folders/files/etc without UAC turned on via the security tabs.
