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Microsoft introduced an excellent access control feature for its versions of the Windows operating system named User Account Control (UAC). If UAC is disabled, you might not be able to use many programs and websites. Thus, you might encounter the error… Continue reading This App can’t be activated when UAC is disabled
Context
I have recently helped a colleague set up her developer machine (Windows 10) and realized that the User Account Control setting is disabled (Never notify). Considering a fairly recent security event and the top management message t… Continue reading Is having a local Antivirus and possibly other corporate protection layer enough to safely disable Windows UAC messages? [closed]
Background
I’m trying to understand more about the Mandatory Integrity Control system in Windows, and have been looking through the background processes that are running at High integrity on my laptop.
I’ve read through all the documentati… Continue reading Why does this Windows process run with High integrity?
User Account Control or UAC is a security measure in Windows that shows up when an administrator…
For more, visit TheWindowsClub.com. Continue reading UAC Yes button missing or grayed out in Windows 11/10
Recently I have noticed that my system doesn’t show the UAC prompt whenever I install some application from another source, I have UAC on and everything is working fine, I also have an administrator account, Latest windows 10 version. But … Continue reading No UAC appearing for newly installed applications
If someone uses the administrator Windows account for everyday work while having the default UAC settings they will be prompted by UAC whenever an application other than certain predefined system apps requires elevated permissions. From th… Continue reading How is using the standard Windows account more secure than using the administrator Windows account with highest UAC settings?
I’m the admin for a Windows 10 machine with a few local users. While I understand there are other ways to bypass security with access to the physical machine, I’d like to protect against hacks that bypass the UAC by running some trick of R… Continue reading How do I stop local users from bypassing the UAC on Windows 10?
I was recently watching a YouTube video of Hak5 and one of his videos were of the vulnerability of bypassing UAC and escalation of privileges through a .ps1 script. You can check the video out here.
But when experimenting on my own machine… Continue reading PowerShell scripts are disabled to run in my system [migrated]
DLL hijacking means that malicious software gets admin rights from default or it means you need to elevate your privileges first?
Because I tried to change a DLL in Windows/System32 folder, but I can’t do it even though I ran my software w… Continue reading DLL hijack privileges
In Windows 10/8/7/Vista OS, User Account Control (UAC) is a feature that was designed to prevent…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com. Continue reading UAC blocks executable apps with revoked certificates in Windows 10