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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 812018" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>Using SUA is not the same as removing Admin Rights, especially for casual users. The second can be done on SUA when the user does not know the Admin password or applying a special UAC setting (by policy or reg tweak).</p><p>Anyway, in many cases just using SUA is much safer, because the elevated processes cannot run on SUA, so they do not share the same account as processes running on SUA. For example, the malware cannot use exploits based on auto-elevation of some Microsoft binaries on SUA. Also, many malware will not ask for elevation but will fail to run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 812018, member: 32260"] Using SUA is not the same as removing Admin Rights, especially for casual users. The second can be done on SUA when the user does not know the Admin password or applying a special UAC setting (by policy or reg tweak). Anyway, in many cases just using SUA is much safer, because the elevated processes cannot run on SUA, so they do not share the same account as processes running on SUA. For example, the malware cannot use exploits based on auto-elevation of some Microsoft binaries on SUA. Also, many malware will not ask for elevation but will fail to run. [/QUOTE]
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