Larry Seltzer at eWeek makes a good point about Vista's User Account Control feature. I'm sure that all of the initial bad press about it was generated by the enthusiast class of users, & I know it's definitely a pain in the ass when you're initially setting up your PC, but the point of UAC is to save users from themselves, & as Larry points out, it's doing a pretty good job of it.

"In fact, a recent test of anti-rootkit tools found that UAC popped up and warned as every rootkit in the test tried to execute."