Solved Administration rights question
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Does anyone know why BMS needs administrator rights? I’d like to know more about why it needs them before giving it admin access.
Thanks in advance,
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@KinneticSlammer Once installed, BMS runs fine as non-admin. But it may require elevation to install…
The install includes a handful of dependencies… some video codecs, and the DirectX runtime redist from “Jun 2010” lol (probably no longer needed for target OS skus of Win7 SP1 and later … but maybe for Windows Server installs? not sure)
If BMS includes any nefarious malware … it was 20 years in the making, and nobody has noticed anything in that time.
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@KinneticSlammer said in Administration rights question:
Does anyone know why BMS needs administrator rights? I’d like to know more about why it needs them before giving it admin access.
Thanks in advance,
KinneticNot sure, but it could be something to do with the legacy code it is built on top of, or incompatibility with UAC.
There are plenty of ways code can do dangerous things without admin priviledges. If you’re already half-way to running it, might as well go all the way. If there was anything bad about it people would already be screaming (we aren’t all dumb computer users here ). Windows isn’t “secure” no matter what you might think; the hardware architecture doesn’t allow it to be.
What happens when you run it without admin privledges? Disk/file access problems?
I don’t trust any computer I have, and I have multiple backups, so all my stuff runs as admin. If it breaks, I don’t care because nothing that matters is on my gaming rig.
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@Tiger-0 Yeah, no idea, but the “.bsf” files are straight-up unextractable, even with a universal-extractor type program. It just says “this program must be run as administrator”. I can see no reason as to why it should need administrator access, even for checking the legitimacy of the Falcon 4.0 install.
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@KinneticSlammer For me installation required administrative rights as it writes to the registry etc. but I installed it to a non-system protected folder (i.e. program files) and run it regularly with minimal standard user permissions only. It only needs permissions to write within its installation directory during runtime.
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@KinneticSlammer Once installed, BMS runs fine as non-admin. But it may require elevation to install…
The install includes a handful of dependencies… some video codecs, and the DirectX runtime redist from “Jun 2010” lol (probably no longer needed for target OS skus of Win7 SP1 and later … but maybe for Windows Server installs? not sure)
If BMS includes any nefarious malware … it was 20 years in the making, and nobody has noticed anything in that time.
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@Tiger-0 said in Administration rights question:
There are plenty of ways code can do dangerous things without admin priviledges.
+1 to this. The whole “admin rights” thing is MS still fighting the last war.
Things like keystroke loggers, ransomware hijacking, background bitcoin miners, etc, don’t need admin rights. They just run as your ordinary self.
Everyone should be vigilant about installing anything, in this day and age.
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AVCS profile for VoiceAttack requires Admin rights (And there’s a checkbox in the application to do this ) and once one thing requires admin rights then the things it’s communicating to requires admin rights - I believe this was/is why I configured BMS to run as admin (and now it’s second nature…QED)
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@KinneticSlammer said in Administration rights question:
@Tiger-0 Yeah, no idea, but the “.bsf” files are straight-up unextractable, even with a universal-extractor type program. It just says “this program must be run as administrator”. I can see no reason as to why it should need administrator access, even for checking the legitimacy of the Falcon 4.0 install.
Don’t quote me but they may be encrypted, so without running the installer they’d be unreadable by anythig (they’d just look like mostly random data).