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Re:Ask HN: What stops a random USB device from rooting Windows? by blibble on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:22PM (#31075964)
how can anti-virus protect against it?

it has no way of telling that that device isn't a logitech keyboard, and can't tell that it's not the user opening up elevated cmd.exe and accepting the prompt

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Re:Ask HN: What stops a random USB device from rooting Windows? by ComradePhil on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:33PM (#31076113)
From the linked article:

> Kaspersky Endpoint Security's technology will not authorize any HIDs unless the user inputs a code using a HID already authorized to do so.

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