Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I'm sorry Haily, but the argument of no game requires elevation and should never do it is false. Here's why. Note, I do realize this example is not a game, but it is something you have to do to play a game. Aprone's games are in VB6. To run them, you have to register the appropriate libraries. Here's the fun part though. most people won't be doing that manually and will run his very useful checkup utility. Guess what though? That requires elevation for obvious reasons. You trust Aprone, and you will say yes by default no matter what your dear UAC tells you. Guess what? That file can download a virus and do whatever once you give it elevation. Where's the security there if you will press yes by default on trusted apps? Doesn't exist. Games on their own do not require elevation indeed, even though some older games like old BSC software does, but modern apps of course don't do that. So yeah, can't see why that's useful. Let's say hypothetically you run a file called BestGameSetup.exe. This file will of course require elevation before it can install anything into the program files folder. At that point, you already said yes. It's done, it can install whatever. If you say no, you can't play the game. So it's not like it tells you hey, this file requires elevation to copy X to Y folder and delete Z N and C. It only asks whether you will allow it or not and does not give you the reason of that question. If it did, it could be an actual security tool. Right now I can only view it as a utility to protect your main administrator account from unwanted software installs provided other people use your PC. The fact it tells me that a program Y is requesting elevation is useless. I already know what I ran, rather I'd be curious why it requires that. So that's my view on why I prefer it off, just one annoying notification with no real purpose.
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