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You don't have to switch to an admin user account. You can provide admin credentials when needed or right click an installer and run as admin manually (and prov
by freeAgent 7y ago
You don't have to switch to an admin user account. You can provide admin credentials when needed or right click an installer and run as admin manually (and provide the credentials then).
- ChrisSD 7y agoNo. That causes a process with admin rights to run in the context of your desktop session. This is exploitable by non-admin processes running in the same session. The inter-process security in Windows is unfortunately weak when they share a desktop session.
- freeAgent 7y agoYou're assuming at that point that you're already compromised or running malware, though. If you aren't already infected with malware, this is not a problem. If the installer itself is malware, then switching to an admin account to install it obviously offers no protection.