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On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 09:46:28 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> The fact the 'security' feature is done on the name of a file 
> and therefore so easily circumvented means it's not a 
> 'security' feature at all, and only an annoyance!

Elevation heuristics is not a security feature indeed, it only 
improves security UX. If an installer runs nonelevated, it will 
fail halfway through, which is bad UX, the solution is to run it 
elevated from the beginning, the system detects the need for 
elevation when the process starts. A proper way to do it is to 
inform the system whether the process needs elevation, it's done 
in a manifest, but old installers don't have manifest, so they 
are detected heuristically.