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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoWhat is interesting to me is that Steam somehow manages to run elevated commands when installing games and it, itself, never actually gives any UAC warnings and even kinda breaks if you force Steam to run as an admin from the compatibility tab.
minus-squareKatana314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoUnfortunately, I think the explanation for this one is that Steam bypasses a lot of Windows security and can be used as an exploration vector.
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI’d hazard a gueas it’s not touching a system drive, but rather saving all files as a regular user.
minus-squaretomalley8342@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoSteam installs a system level background service to avoid UAC prompts. There was a privilege escalation vulnerability exploiting this service disclosed in 2019.
What is interesting to me is that Steam somehow manages to run elevated commands when installing games and it, itself, never actually gives any UAC warnings and even kinda breaks if you force Steam to run as an admin from the compatibility tab.
Unfortunately, I think the explanation for this one is that Steam bypasses a lot of Windows security and can be used as an exploration vector.
I’d hazard a gueas it’s not touching a system drive, but rather saving all files as a regular user.
Steam installs a system level background service to avoid UAC prompts. There was a privilege escalation vulnerability exploiting this service disclosed in 2019.