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Wouldn't it require elevation?
Yet another example of why running as root/admin is a Bad Idea©
Yes. The prompt asking you if you wanted to do it or not would come up next. Unless they figured out some sneaky way to do something to avoid using admin.
90% of users when they are presented with the UAC popup when they do something:
"Yes yes whateverrr"
🤷♂️ people are going to take the path of least resistance
It would be trivial to add a "please click 'yes' to the UAC prompt to allow verification" screen, so that isn't really going to stop anyone.
I've seen a bit of office malware in the past that did that, where it had a bunch of images instructing you to enable macros and that.