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Why UAC should be taken seriously
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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 178" data-source="post: 560274"><p>What level of UAC? what type of account? how come the ransomware is on the system? does smartscreen was enabled and gave an alert about the ransomware?</p><p></p><p>Any Windows built-in security feature shouldn't be taken separately, they complement each other. The mistake of many "self-proclaimed experts" is that they think that each feature is independent. They are not.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because UAC isn't supposed to block malwares, only elevation requests; if a malware doesn't need elevation , UAC won't react. that is it. UAC don't care if the process is legit or not, it just care about its signature and elevation request.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>VS shouldn't be a surrogate but only a complement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 178, post: 560274"] What level of UAC? what type of account? how come the ransomware is on the system? does smartscreen was enabled and gave an alert about the ransomware? Any Windows built-in security feature shouldn't be taken separately, they complement each other. The mistake of many "self-proclaimed experts" is that they think that each feature is independent. They are not. Because UAC isn't supposed to block malwares, only elevation requests; if a malware doesn't need elevation , UAC won't react. that is it. UAC don't care if the process is legit or not, it just care about its signature and elevation request. VS shouldn't be a surrogate but only a complement. [/QUOTE]
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