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Originally Posted by karbomusic
Ooops, I see now, you need the connection between that GPO and drag & drop, ok....
I don't disagree with Lowell per se. You aren't suddenly now in some huge impending danger, but knowing the above and that you must turn off all protection for the entire OS just because there is a problem with Reaper's install doesn't typically sound justifiable to me because Reaper is coded properly as not to typically cause this elevation on its own.
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I know what you mean, and yes I agree with you - but UAC is, imo, not anywhere as safe as the root/UNIX approach to security. Those Vista/7 UAC prompts are massively annoying and so often a headache for most users. UAC is just not a good implementation, imo.
As long as you run a program like Security Essentials (or Defender now), or MalewareBytes, with a decent firewall, you won't get in any trouble. I haven't had a virus or trojan in what, 8 years almost?
Ideally, your DAW should be an offline PC anyway, in which case, you don't have any worry of an online attack - ever.
So, to sum it all up Richie: just be aware that you are technically "less" secure, but realistically I think you should be fine - but you have to decide just how annoying you find those prompts to be every time you D&D, etc
Good luck!