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Google Chrome will not launch with admin rights anymore, to reduce security risks
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Google Chrome will not launch with admin rights anymore, to reduce security risks
Google is making an important change to Chrome on Windows. The browser will no longer run with administrator privileges by default. This change is designed with the intent to protect users from potentially malicious threats. As Bleeping Computer explains, when Chrome runs with administrator rights, any file that you download can pose a security risk. What that means is a malicious file that a user downloads could run with full system access, and…
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