This is not true. Here, I took these screenshots for you where I copied an unsigned binary to a random location and forced a UAC prompt: https://i.imgur.com/BS

This is not true. Here, I took these screenshots for you where I copied an unsigned binary to a random location and forced a UAC prompt: https://i.imgur.com/BSJlSAf.png https://i.imgur.com/BSJlSAf.png https://i.imgur.com/4ZVNsPN.png https://i.imgur.com/4ZVNsPN.png I also did the same with a signed binary: https://i.imgur.com/xpSiMMY.png https://i.imgur.com/xpSiMMY.png https://i.imgur.com/ACLydv0.png https://i.imgur.com/ACLydv0.png