Windows User Account Control was introduced to help prevent rouge programs from doing harm to the computer. The way that this works is by running a program as a regular user and if the program needs to have administrator privileges the user will be presented with an option to allow or to deny the request.
UAC Messagebox
Well asking a user if they want to allow or to deny a request might be a great way for things to work in a perfect world but in that perfect world there will also be the issue of not needing that feature because it is again “A PERFECT WORLD”. We do not live in a perfect society that does not want to do us any harm, in fact there are rogue programmers out there that are looking to do data mining to find out information about you, even popular websites do this with the use of cookies to target adds to you better.
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