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I kick myself in the tail almost every single time now when UAC does pop up on win 10 because I think back to all the times I had it off using vista and 7 and all the trouble I probably could have saved myself.I'll tell you when UAC is annoying to some degree
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@50, agreed. I don't use a standard account either, but I know the risks and willingly take them. If you disable UAC, its no ones fault but yours if you don't see something that UAC would've warned you of.
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@50,I've never used a standard account and don't have any plan to, but also understand the risks and don't go about whining and complaining that MS is evil and won't secure their systems. That's on me and me alone.I've dealt with recycler, boot sector
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You know what amazes me about so many here saying UAC is annoying and refusing to run as standard user...These same people will turn around and complain that Windows is insecure because Microsoft can't get their act together. As @46 said, UAC is akin to sudo
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I too wouldn't mind switching to linux or at least learning more than I currently know for the sake of use, benefit and versatility, but methinks I'm just too old, unless one of you youngbloods are willing to sit down with a crusty beat up 32 year old dad
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@47 is right, I just today set my UAC levels to the Max settings so I don't mess up my computer by accedent. I one day would like to switch to Linux full time but, their is a lot of work to be done before that can happen for me.
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46, yep, I keep UAC on for the exact same reasons. Disabling UAC on Windows is akin to making sudo not ask for a password on Linux and Unix systems. The only difference is that sudo doesn't tell you what requires elevation (it implicitly trusts that you know
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46, yep, I keep UAC on for the exact same reasons. Disabling UAC on Windows is akin to making sudo not ask for a password on Linux and Unix systems. The only difference is that sudo doesn't tell you what requires elevation (it implicitly trusts that you know
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Alright! So if you want it off, keep it off! I'm not sure what all the fuss is. We're saying it does what it's meant to and that it adds an extra layer of security by virtue of what it does, which is to tell you that something is requesting permission
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No, your screen reader doesn't run in elevated mode. I run both JAWS and NVDA on a standard user account. And they run fine; they've never explicitly asked for admin rights. If I need to read an install dialog or something like that that was created
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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
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Exactly. Don't even get me started on the fact that a process can still request elevation even after being ran, so any game or piece of software could do absolutely anything to your system at any point during it's run time.
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@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
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@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
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It'd ask if you wanted to the app to make changes though, it wouldn't be like "oh by the way, this app downloded this file." It's like this. If you get a bacon cheeseburger, and you know that it is a cheeseburger, someone isn't going to just
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nidza07, again you're missing the point. If you hear about a new game that's been released, chances are you'll download and run it without thinking if it's something that appeals to you. Your example of saying the game requires elevation to work would
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It's rather hilarious how some of us are worshipping UAC, but I have to agree with Nidza and others about this one. Regardless of whether UAC is on or off, there isn't much difference. When you run a program with UAC off, you're automatically saying "yes
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Well Haily, your example worked because the person trusted your software, not because they had UAC off. You could have achieved the same with UAC on by saying sorry, my game requires administrator rights to download and register a library, I'll fix that soon
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Right after this poster posted this topic i just got this virus, damn! i allmost can't believe it, but it was a perfect timing so i knew what to do. At first it didn't do anything harmfull but then my windows defender freeked out.i removed it with the remover
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This is why i think people are stupid when they disable windows defender and don't have any antivirus running.
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Nikola, since you seem to have entirely missed my point, I'm going to provide you with a small example I did to someone's computer a few months ago to teach them something.So, I made a little game. Nothing fancy, just a guess the number thing. I then added
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I woulnd't got aht far
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for the record: you don't just "download a virus" and then you have it. it actually has to trick you into running it.
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@29 You said it better than I could ever.
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@29, thumbs up man. Great post right there.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
A locked door and antivirous is both good things to have but UAC for me isn't. You're not 100% safe with UAC either even the sound of it UAC, sounds contagious. Doctor doctor help me I got a serious case of UAC. lol
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I'm not here to tell you how to run your show. Your computer is your computer and entirely so. What I am here to tell you is that you should never assume you're safe, and you should definitely not assume you're safer than those who do have extra security
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I mean, you can say that, but how often will it require it? Besides, regardless of if it does or does not, you do need to give it access to install in the first place. If you don't give it admin rights it will have the same restrictions as the portable copy
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@25, NVDA doesn't run with elevation unless it explicitly requires it. It never runs with elevation during normal operation unless your changing preferences.
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@25 I have done some research during one of my classes while I was at college. You really need to have UAC on for your protection encase a program wants to elevate to use admin rights, I only see NVDA using admin righhts for installing the screen reader. I
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So, of course I do understand the point of UAC, but there are so many things running with admin rights by default making it completely useless. Your screen reader runs with admin rights, your anti virus most likely does, every single inno setup you launch
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What you are experiencing is known as the Grenam Virus under c: \ Windows \ System32 I believe. This virus is mostly common in Dropbox when applications are launched by several devices that probably have the virus on it. It'll then eat at the application
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What an odd virus. Sounds like something someone wrote when they were learning.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
i have a mac and i like how apple handles sicurety i hat a wirus on it but apple warned me directly
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I don't know, I still say that all this talk about disabling UAC being the equivalent of leaving your door wide open in an inner city neighborhood at 4 AM is BS. Take the example currently being discussed here, a virus which replicates itself via Dropbox
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Exactly, @19 gets it. More to the point though, sometimes accidentally saying yes does happen and UAC is there to make absolutely sure you didn't mean to. It's like having a deadbolt and a chain to lock your door, where its knob probably already has
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@17 / 18, see here's the thing though. If you somehow get a virus on your computer from a program you don't know about, UAC can notify you if that virus were to request elevation which would then prompt you to take action. It's very easy for a program
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Thumbs up @17
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Genuine question, how does UAC protect you from this? If you want to run something, you press enter on it, and you will of course answer yes on UAC prompts by default. I mean, you chose to run it. So I don't see a difference if you do or don't keep UAC
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At post 15, best of luck to you. That's not a very smart thing to do.At OP: you might want to look at this:https://github.com/cartertemm/grenam-remover
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At post 15, bet of luck to you. That's not a very smart thing to do.You might want to look at this:https://github.com/cartertemm/grenam-remover
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I hate UAC I turned that crap off. I don't need an anoying computer baby sitter. I'll take the risk. I hope you get rid of the virous.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
@13, neshta is very similar but without the V letter.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I forget, didn't this once go as the Neshta virus?Also, malwarebytes can remove it. The downside to having this virus is even if you think a file is safe, chances are it's infected by the virus itself. Btw just let it remove everything it finds, even if you
Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Admin accounts make sense to a degree; turning UAC off nowadays really doesn't. Still, what @Munawar, post 11 says is true. Honestly, unless you have need to run an admin account on a regular basis you probably shouldn't be, and for your average computer
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If it spreads by infecting Windows-critical files you can easily solve this by running under a local account only. The amount of people that turn off UAC and run admin accounts on Windows astounds me (I've even known IT guys to say "I always turn of
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Thanks. Good to know. I once triggered an infected ad, and teslacrypt almost ruined my university report, so I'm very scared of malware.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
@8, it runs when you run an infected by it file. Windows defender detects and removes it, and i think all other antiviruses do to. This virus, i think, is really old.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Noo, scary scary!!! Sorry for kinda hijacking the topic, but doesn't it start infecting unless you actually run the very first virus exe file, does it? Please say it doesn't
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Yep. It's a virus that made the rounds through some shared folders, it travelled pretty far in the blind community though I'm not sure where it originated.It replicated by searching for exe files on the computer. Then for every executable it found, it renamed
Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
This was called the paint virus also, because it replaced your programs with something with a v in it that replicated itself, don't know much about it, I got read of it on my old laptop when I upgraded to win 10.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
I know something that was called vvv virus, but it's probably a different one. vvv virus is identified as ransomware TeslaCrypt.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
What is V virus?
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
Search for grenarm remover. It's easy to use and it works, i got rid of this shit on my second machine.Windows defender is great btw.
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Re: Getting rid of the V Virus
What is the VVirus? I'm not sure, have you tried Malware Bytes? I don't know of any other good antivirus programs that are accessible.
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So, as most blindies call it, The VVirus has found its way onto my computer. Don't know how, don't know when, but Need assistance with removing the bloody thing. Any help is apreciated, windows defender is shit, and good day to everyone.
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