I recall at least one instance where my mom stopped at a UAC prompt wondering what it meant. Her calling me to verify what it was doing saved her from installin

I recall at least one instance where my mom stopped at a UAC prompt wondering what it meant. Her calling me to verify what it was doing saved her from installing some malware. So anecdotally those prompts are not completely useless. She is not a tech literate person either, not much beyond referring to the browser as "the internet."