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<blockquote data-quote="Eddie Morra" data-source="post: 773925"><p>DoubleAgent required administrative rights to be deployed. It was either a protected area on file-system or registry (I'd have to check because I cannot remember - it was a pretty crap invention for the purpose of attention).</p><p></p><p>If you have administrative rights, you can give yourself SYSTEM rights by registering and starting a Windows Service via the SC Manager APIs. There was no privilege escalation from DoubleAgent alone.</p><p></p><p>DoubleAgent was possible because of Microsoft, not AV vendors, anyway.</p><p></p><p>Edit:</p><p>Fixed a typo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eddie Morra, post: 773925"] DoubleAgent required administrative rights to be deployed. It was either a protected area on file-system or registry (I'd have to check because I cannot remember - it was a pretty crap invention for the purpose of attention). If you have administrative rights, you can give yourself SYSTEM rights by registering and starting a Windows Service via the SC Manager APIs. There was no privilege escalation from DoubleAgent alone. DoubleAgent was possible because of Microsoft, not AV vendors, anyway. Edit: Fixed a typo. [/QUOTE]
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