


"GET /client/steam_client_win32 HTTP/1.1User-Agent: Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0 (client windows 10 0)Host: : text/html,*/* q=0.9Accept-Encoding: gzip,identity,* q=0Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8,* q=0.7" Reads information about supported languages "" wrote bytes "c0" to virtual address "0x75581190" (part of module "WS2_32.DLL") These instances run with admin rights ! - and you probably wouldn't notice."" wrote bytes "c0" to virtual address "0x74CB1244" (part of module "MSWSOCK.DLL") through local URL- and HTML-files and hyperlinks in Office and mail applications (DOC, XLS) or help files (CHM). īut probably more relevant is this argument: Even if you started, say, IE with lower rights there is always the danger that another instance of the browser is started indirectly by a casual click e.g.

It's a fact that this is design weakness in the Windows NT series up to XP which was finally abolished in Vista. And don't forget that there is at least one other process (namely explorer.exe) permanently running with admin rights which would be an an easy target for malware using Windows messaging. Nevertheless, there are scenarios in which applications, which were started with lower rights, can break out from this security context and gain admin rights. Click to expand.I'm not aware of existing malware in the wild that tries to undermine DMR (which doesn't mean that none exists).
