Re: Is it possible to completely control the files on my computer?
Hi,
Disabling UAC won't solve this; it will just raise the security risk factor on your computer up by about 92.7 percent. Keep UAC enabled. Never disable it unless you absolutely have to. And if games can't check for updates, the people who code the programs that check for updates need to learn to tell that program to ask windows for administrative privileges. If the updater is written into the game, run the game as administrator. But never, never disable UAC. Remember what the unix geeks say about running as root on LInux: It defeats the security model that's been in place for years. Applications are meant to be run with non-administrative security (or as mere mortals) so you have to elevate their privileges to modify the underlying system. For example you wouldn't want that recent crash of Rhythmbox to wipe out your entire /usr directory due to a bug. Or that vulnerability that was just posted in ProFTPD to allow an attacker to gain a ROOT shell.
Its just good practice on any operating system to run your applications on a user level and leave administrative tasks to the root user, and only on a per-need basis.
The same applies here. Head the above warning, people, as disabling UAC is very similar to running as root on Linux. That's why I posted that warning here. Just... don't do it.
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