Originally Posted by deoradh
For the love of all that's holy, don't tell people to disable UAC. I'm trying to be nice when I say that the vast majority of people likely to hear such advice have zero clue what it exposes them to.
Run as administrator only as long as it's actually needed, and work to convince Blizzard to re-work how they interact with UAC to perform their patches. In particular, tell them to move the interface and addon folders to Program Data, where they belong.
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I strongly discouraged the practice of disabling UAC, and I don't do it myself. However, the fact that it can be potentially dangerous is no reason to hide its existence. If a user wishes to do this, then that is their own perogative. It does nothing more than expose them to what they would have been exposed to in Windows XP anyway.
Besides, a system is only as secure as its user is knowledgable. It is arguable that a user is more secure if they disable UAC and know what they've exposed themselves to than if they enable it and have no clue what's going on.
The Interface and Addon folders will probably never be relocated, mostly because too many users are familiar with their position as it is now and because WoW is a portable application. Attempting to provide a place like %APPDATA% on every operating system is just asking for trouble. It is a far easier solution to just not install in Program Files in the first place.