{"id":22117,"date":"2011-06-21T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=22117"},"modified":"2011-06-21T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:22:19","slug":"ask-leo-is-it-safe-to-run-as-admin-now-that-windows-7-has-uac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ask-leo-is-it-safe-to-run-as-admin-now-that-windows-7-has-uac\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Leo: Is it safe to run as admin now that Windows 7 has UAC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090929leonotenboomwp.jpg\" alt=\"askleo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p><i>What are your recommendations regarding User Account Control and operating a PC as an administrator in Windows 7? I&#8217;ve read many times that one shouldn&#8217;t routinely operate a computer while logged in as an administrator, but when you set up Windows on a new computer, the first user that you create is automatically an administrator on that PC. That makes it easy to get through User Access Control prompts by just clicking Yes. Is that risky? If you create a non-administrator user and log in as that user, UAC quite often prompts you for the user name and password of an administrator. Is there a benefit to that?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get a variety of opinions on this one.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to fall on the side of pragmatism. What that means is that it depends<br \/>\non just how much you trust the user of your computer.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s probably not the type of &#8220;trust&#8221; that you think.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageinline\" style=\"clear:both\"><img alt=\"User Account Control\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/img.askleomedia.com\/2011\/uac_admin_prompt.png\" title=\n\"User Account Control\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>User Account Control<\/h3>\n<p>UAC was added in Windows Vista and made more palatable (meaning less<br \/>\nannoying) in Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>There are two principals at play:<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullQuote\">&#8220;Because you know the password, you&#8217;re empowered to make mistakes either way.&#8221;<\/div>\n<ul class=\"spacedlist\">\n<li>\n<p>Even when logged in with an account that has administrative privileges,<br \/>\nyou do not actually run &#8220;as&#8221; the administrator by default.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>When something needs to happen that requires administrative privileges,<br \/>\nyou are prompted for permission. If you&#8217;re logged in as an account with<br \/>\nadministrative privileges, it&#8217;s a simple <strong>OK\/Cancel<\/strong> choice. If you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nlogged in with an administrative-enabled account, you must also provide the<br \/>\nadministrator password in order to be able to choose <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is extremely similar to security measures on other operating systems,<br \/>\nincluding both MacOS and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning is simple: by not truly running as administrator, malware<br \/>\nthat you encounter will have a more difficult time infecting your machine. In<br \/>\ngeneral, they have to fool you into saying <strong>OK<\/strong> to the UAC prompt before they can infect the deeper levels of your system.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it can also be helpful in preventing accidental or non-malicious changes from happening to your system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask-leo.com\/is_it_safe_to_run_as_administrator_now_that_windows_7_has_uac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with Leo&#8217;s permission from his blog.<\/p>\n<p>FaceBook URL:   <a href=\"http:\/\/ask-leo.com\/fb\" target=\"_blank\">Leo&#8217;s Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter URL:     <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/askleo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/askleo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090929leonotenboomwp.jpg\" alt=\"askleo\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p>There 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