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I'd just like to touch upon that 94% figure. It's from this source[0], which actually says: > Of these critical vulnerabilities, 94% were found to be mitigated
by judge2020 5y ago
I'd just like to touch upon that 94% figure. It's from this source[0], which actually says:
> Of these critical vulnerabilities, 94% were found to be mitigated by removing admin rights, up from 85% reported last year.
It's a very fine line, but they're mitigated by not running stuff as admin, not just removing admin rights from the main user's account. With Ameliorated, people will still want to set up software as admin and install to Program Files, so if they take the advice from the FAQ, they might think they're fine just having a separate Admin account they use for UAC pop-ups to install the programs, while leaving their main as a standard user, which is indeed not going to solve any zero-days compared to users just being able to click 'yes' at UAC.
0: https://web.archive.org/web/20170310043706/https://www.avecto.com/news-and-events/news/94-of-critical-microsoft-vulnerabilities-mitigated-by-removing-admin-rights/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170310043706/https://www.avect...