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Comment by drdexebtjl

2 days ago

Now everything installs to a user local folder, runs as the user, there are no UAC prompts, and malware can just freely tamper with other applications, act as the user, and harvest all data the user has access to.

Hey, but at least it can’t touch the System32 folder.

Great job guys.

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