Let's say I want to run an installer on windows 7 on my limited user account. A dialog pops up asking for super user password for the full privileges. Is there a way to limit the permissions I grant somehow?
For instance, every time I start up uTorrent it will prompt me for SU password.
Because it wants to write to the disk drive. But after I use my SU password, doesn't it now have total freedom to change everything like registry and firewall settings and users on my machine?
Is there a way where I can give an application permission to write to disk drive to a specific folder, but hold back on every other permission? It would also help a lot when running installers/apps from half-trusted sources, I want to limit their permissions to just disk access of specific folder. Right now all kinds of applications ask for elevated status and I never know if it's just to write to disk or is it to do all kinds of nefarious things to my system.
Best Answer
Yes, when you give it the administrator password, it receives rights to your machine such that it can make registry changes, etc. and this is unwise.
There's a uTorrent Forum Post that asks the same question. The issue seemed to be resolved by updating to 3.1.3 build 27207. Another option was to run the application using compatibility mode. The forum posts are pretty recent, so you might try looking for an update.