Vista - Re: Link improperly opens in elevated instance of IE

04-26-2007

Forwarded to Vista Security newsgroup via crosspost.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Calvin Daling wrote:
> I needed to open an instance of IE in Vista under my domain admin account
> so
> I used the right-click, run as administrator method and then authenticated
> as my domain admin account and an instance of IE opened properly for me.
> The
> problem that happened after that was that I was also running Outlook as a
> regular user and when I clicked a link in Outlook, it opened that link in
> a
> new tab in my elevated instance of IE. That sound wrong to me. I would
> think
> that it should have spawned a new instance of IE as my regular user rather
> than allowing a regular app to open a link in an instance of IE that was
> running as a domain admin. Am I wrong in what I was expecting? Or is this
> a
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Calvin Daling
> Trinity Western University
>
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04-26-2007	#1 (permalink)
PA Bear n/a posts	Re: Link improperly opens in elevated instance of IE Forwarded to Vista Security newsgroup via crosspost. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org Calvin Daling wrote: > I needed to open an instance of IE in Vista under my domain admin account > so > I used the right-click, run as administrator method and then authenticated > as my domain admin account and an instance of IE opened properly for me. > The > problem that happened after that was that I was also running Outlook as a > regular user and when I clicked a link in Outlook, it opened that link in > a > new tab in my elevated instance of IE. That sound wrong to me. I would > think > that it should have spawned a new instance of IE as my regular user rather > than allowing a regular app to open a link in an instance of IE that was > running as a domain admin. Am I wrong in what I was expecting? Or is this > a > problem? > > Thanks, > Calvin Daling > Trinity Western University > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...lorer.security
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