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Originally Posted by Catfish
Hello,
Gizzmoe, you do not really think that logging in as administrator with all appropriate rights does the ring 0 thing ?
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No, but admin rights gives a virus/trojan/malware the opportunity to install a system driver and then later attack the hardware. For some hardware attacks you don´t even need a special driver, like overclocking the GPU (if the card supports it) or flashing an optical drive. Some boards even allow the BIOS to be flashed under Windows.
My point is simply that this whole thing isn´t black/white, there are many shades of gray. It´s not like "SF installed=everything can happen" and "SF not installed=nothing can happen". Once you start a program that was made to harm your system or was made to spy on you and that your anti-virus/anti-spyware software doesn´t know yet and you are logged in with admin rights you are basically ********d, no matter if SF is installed or not.