Also, it is actually quite trivial bypassing UAC prompt in Windows. It simply gives a false sense of security.
Something as simple as SilentCleanup [1] still works to this day. This will bypass UAC with little effort.
Even worse, following that, it is also trivial to get NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM using Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription. [2]
I've done it as an exercise in Go out of all languages and it ended up fully undetected both on disk and during runtime.
So Windows simply provides a false sense of security. After all Microsoft themselves said [3]:
One important thing to know is that UAC
is not a security boundary. UAC helps people
be more secure, but it is not a cure all.
UAC helps most by being the prompt before
software is installed.
What difference does it make really. Running a program on linux as a regular user can access all of your files, record your screen, keylog you, grab your passwords from your browser, do basically anything. Run it with sudo and what more can it do? Mess up your grub config? If a malicious program was run as a regular user it could basically ruin everything you care about unless you happen to be sharing a computer with multiple people but even then it could just wait until you run something with sudo and keylog your password.
Also, it is actually quite trivial bypassing UAC prompt in Windows. It simply gives a false sense of security.
Something as simple as SilentCleanup [1] still works to this day. This will bypass UAC with little effort.
Even worse, following that, it is also trivial to get NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM using Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription. [2]
I've done it as an exercise in Go out of all languages and it ended up fully undetected both on disk and during runtime.
So Windows simply provides a false sense of security. After all Microsoft themselves said [3]:
[0] https://amonitoring.ru/article/steam_vuln_3/[1] https://enigma0x3.net/2016/07/22/bypassing-uac-on-windows-10...
[2] https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1084/
[3] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/e7/2009/02/05/update-on-uac...