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Yes, they do.

However, anyone running something called ChromeSetup.bat would expect a UAC warning to come up since they are expecting to install something anyway.

I've actually run in to this issue myself when I had a program called "Patcher.exe" (an internal dev tool) that didn't require UAC elevation. Turns out that name was on the list. You can include a manifest in the executable to say that you explicitly don't require UAC elevation to prevent that.



And the page 18 of the document is even scarier: the name of the program is not even displayed -- the (bad) logic was obviously "normal users wouldn't know the difference."




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