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You shouldn’t grant an executable admin privileges if you’re not sure what it does.
That sounds like coward talk.
LMAO I just don't want to encourage people to open the sketchiest .exe they find online without a second thought
Be brave; live life on the edge like our OSes used to.
And you shouldn't even execute something you don't trust. The program doesn't need admin rights to do harm, and there's also privilege escalation.
Yes, this is technically true. However if you don't run the executable you will not install the software. If you're trying to install a cracked game you are going to have to put some trust in whoever released it. Up until relatively recently you couldn't even use a VM since pretty much every game requires hardware acceleration.
by the way, I haven't encountered this personally, but some games have anti-cheat mechanisms that prevent you from running them in a hypervisor
Look at me. I am the admin now.