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Doesn’t Windows require Administrative privileges to access another process’ memory? I know it does to get direct access to a hard drive. Granted, it would be n
by colejohnson66 6y ago
Doesn’t Windows require Administrative privileges to access another process’ memory? I know it does to get direct access to a hard drive. Granted, it would be nice if one had to explicitly whitelist an app that wanted to read other process’ memory.
- asveikau 6y agoYou don't need admin to do it to yourself, otherwise debuggers wouldn't work. It will fail if you do it for an unrelated user though. Basically the permissions are enforced at OpenProcess(), and these are the permissions you can ask for: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/process-security-and-access-rights https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/pr...
- tomc1985 6y agoUp until recently it was standard to just blindly grant admin to whatever asked for it, because UAC's implementation was so damn naggy. With Windows XP or before there was no UAC and most everyone ran as admin unless you were computer savvy or on a corporate PC.