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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yes. The prompt asking you if you wanted to do it or not would come up next. Unless they figured out some sneaky way to do something to avoid using admin.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

90% of users when they are presented with the UAC popup when they do something:

"Yes yes whateverrr"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

🤷‍♂️ people are going to take the path of least resistance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It would be trivial to add a "please click 'yes' to the UAC prompt to allow verification" screen, so that isn't really going to stop anyone.

I've seen a bit of office malware in the past that did that, where it had a bunch of images instructing you to enable macros and that.