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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 807732" data-attributes="member: 32260">If the test was performed with Hard_Configurator, then the settings are not the standard ones.On Windows 8+ in the recommended H_C settings, the user cannot use &quot;Run as administrator&quot; option to run files with admin rights. The file can be &quot;Run As SmartScreen&quot;, which means that is run as administrator only if it is accepted as safe by Windows SmartScreen Application Reputation filter. If the malware from the test managed to fool the SmartScreen and infect the system, then it should be counted as a fail. This is possible (very rarely), and there was one such case in [USER=64646]@askalan[/USER] tests for H_C (no AV setup) made in the period January-March 2019.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard_configurator-january-2019-report.89172/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard_configurator-february-2019-report.90240/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard-configurator-march-2019-report.91024/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 807732, member: 32260"] If the test was performed with Hard_Configurator, then the settings are not the standard ones. On Windows 8+ in the recommended H_C settings, the user cannot use "Run as administrator" option to run files with admin rights. The file can be "Run As SmartScreen", which means that is run as administrator only if it is accepted as safe by Windows SmartScreen Application Reputation filter. If the malware from the test managed to fool the SmartScreen and infect the system, then it should be counted as a fail. This is possible (very rarely), and there was one such case in [USER=64646]@askalan[/USER] tests for H_C (no AV setup) made in the period January-March 2019. [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard_configurator-january-2019-report.89172/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard_configurator-february-2019-report.90240/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/hard-configurator-march-2019-report.91024/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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