Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
@41, that's not the point 40 is trying to make. I don't really get how this is hard to understand.
If you have UAC off and a game downloads a file that requires elevation and runs it, you'll never even know its running at all. There'll be no warning at all, no way for you to even realize its there with full administrative privileges. If that very same game did tha and you had UAC on, you'd at least be notified that something wants to make changes to your computer. You know what precisely wants to make changes by reading the information UAC prompts you with and using show details if you need that to find out more information. Its not meant to protect you against viruses or malicious programs, per see; its there to tell you "hey, this app wants to run with admin privileges to do something, and you probably should know its happening." UAC also doesn't just prompt you when your installing something either, it prompts you when any application requests elevation for any reason (especially if you've got it at its highest setting).
@33, not really sure where you get this logic. Right now this statement is entirely false. It may be true in a few years but for now its not. Its trivial for me to make a program that downloads a virus and runs it with non-elevated privileges that starts deleting all your documents and other files without you explicitly needing to download the virus. You simply need to download a program that can then download the virus for you. Adn that's only the tip of the icebirg; ther ar many, many ways of contracting computer viruses that we haven't even touched on.
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