Group Name Type SID Attributes
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Everyone Well-known group S-1-1-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Users Alias S-1-5-32-545 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE Well-known group S-1-5-4 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
CONSOLE LOGON Well-known group S-1-2-1 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users Well-known group S-1-5-11 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization Well-known group S-1-5-15 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Local account Well-known group S-1-5-113 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL Well-known group S-1-2-0 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\NTLM Authentication Well-known group S-1-5-64-10 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
Mandatory Label\Medium Mandatory Level Label S-1-16-8192
C:\Users\usr>whoami /priv
PRIVILEGES INFORMATION
Privilege Name Description State
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SeShutdownPrivilege Shut down the system Disabled
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege Bypass traverse checking Enabled
SeUndockPrivilege Remove computer from docking station Disabled
SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Increase a process working set Disabled
SeTimeZonePrivilege Change the time zone Disabled
and i noticed that it it is possible to disable avast with this user (thus without administrator privileges) (https://imgur.com/a/XYGsFAa)
Such things is a security issue for me because someone on the computer can disable it and introduce malwares.
Thus, I’m wondering if there is a way to prevent that?
The best thing you should do is put a password on Avast. because if someone wants to make any changes to Avast they will be asked for the password to be able to release it.
Personally I don’t like embedded links to images in posts either.
As it is essentially an unknown 3rd party link and it is opening/loading automatically.
So I always advise/recommend attaching the image to the post.
For sebbbb
Attaching Images to your post - When you Click the Reply button it opens a text window for you to post your comment (reply or post).
Click the Preview button, that shows what you have input and expands it to include ‘Attachments and other options’. Click that it further expands, here you can attach images, etc. at the bottom of your post.
See my attached image, click to expand.
But that doesn’t mean it’s unsafe, it just means it potentially has adult content. If you’re at work or in public or something, I definitely understand the hesitation. But if you’re just at home by yourself there is no risk. And we can reasonably infer that it wouldn’t be adult content in the image given the topic of the forum that it is posted in.
Also, the imgur link is towards an animated gif. Do animated gifs animate properly on here well if they’re embedded or posted as attachments?EDIT: They do, see below.
“And we can reasonably infer that it wouldn’t be adult content in the image given the topic of the forum that it is posted in.” Not an assumption or inference I’m willing to accept. (After 20 years on this forum, you learn not to ever take anything for granted.) Not being dangerous and not being willing to accept looking at an adult image is also up to each individual. I take the high road on both of those and choose to opt out.
There might not be anything wrong with the 3rd party site but there is no such guarantee of the content.
You can take the risk, but isn’t something that should be promoted within the Avast Forums when there is a function to upload images to the forum webspace.
I deleted it as it doesn’t prove anything.
You have chosen to go past the warning results that Bob posted in Reply #2, a warning, so proves nothing, you took the risk of going past that.
The whole point of not embedding 3rd party links, is the viewer has no control over what is going to be downloaded and or run.
By far the ‘safest option’ is to upload to the forum webspace and what is essentially a thumbnail is displayed and you not a live connection to a 3rd party site with unknown content.
It’s not about “proving” anything, it was meant to show the image as an embedded image as suggested by Bob so that people can see it and understand what OP is referring to in case his explanation isn’t clear to some. Bob himself embedded an image from Imgur as an example. Whether it is technically “less safe” than attaching it separately shouldn’t matter, because embedding is accepted.
As David said, the image isn’t relative to the actual Topic of this thread and therefore totally useless.
We’ve also totally gone off topic and I think the actual question raised by sebbbb is one that Avast needs to address.
If you actually look at the .gif itself, it’s completely relevant to the topic as it’s showing the mechanism that OP is referring to. It provides a visual.
As mentioned in the very beginning, it’s recommended to set a password to protect access to Avast settings.
Right now, it’s not possible to restrict access to administrators only.