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Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by amanzi on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:30PM (#25030076)
Interesting - this only applies if your user account is already running as an administrator, but the risk here is that administrative functions could be run without user interaction or UAC prompts.

I just tested this on my Windows 10 machine (running the latest 20H2 version of Win10), and I could successfully launch diskpart.exe and other executables without any UAC prompt. Although Windows Defender did block me from launching cmd.exe or regedit.exe.

I would agree with the author that this is a risk that should be fixed.

Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by magicalhippo on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:49AM (#25032717)
What's your UAC setting?
Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by amanzi on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:22PM (#25040084)
It's the default Windows 10 setting - "Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer"
Re:Inexcusable insecurity in Windows by magicalhippo on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:42PM (#25040307)
Thanks! Seems I bumped it up to "always" at some point, though guess I should just make a separate admin user.