alt Hacker NewsI remember that Win32 apps on Windows 10 and 11 can do whatever they want with the users personal files. Has that changed?
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zx8080 • today at 4:33 AM
In Win, access to files are controlled by ACL when NTFS is used (dating back to NT 3.1 with NTFS). So it depends on which user runs a process.
Basic hygiene is very simple: never run as Administrator. Create and use a regular user or poweruser group user. It's similar to a regular linux practice. Use Administrator account when needed only.
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Win32 Apps can access anything you can access and also read out some text fields from apps you have running, via accessibility APIs.