If you want more protection and don‘t want to spend money, i recommend the free version of avira. If you don‘t click on suspicious emails or download and run suspicious stuff, going without antivirus is a viable option. The antivirus built into windows has become quite capable. Anyway, malware does not need admin rights to e.g. But most malware either doesn‘t bother or the author doesn‘t know how. Most bypasses abuse how microsoft gives special trust to some of it’s own programs. UAC (this sudo-like concept we have since windows Vista) can be bypassed in most cases when you account has admin rights. There are even legitimate programs that happily install without admin rights or Elevation prompts. Without admin privs it can copy itselt to your „home directory“, make itself persistent, get read access to all your data, write access to most of your data, internet access, etc.
Most current malware does not need admin privs (or „high integrity“). In the Control Panel window, select User Accounts and Family Safety > Manage User Accounts.Sorry, there is a bit of misinformation here.
In the Control Panel window, select User Accounts and Family Safety > Change your account type. In the User Accounts window, select Properties and the Group Membership tab. In the Control Panel window, select User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts > Manage User Accounts. In the Control Panel window, select User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts > Change your account type. In the User Accounts window, select Properties and then select the Group Membership tab. If you can't select the Administrator option, contact the person who has administrator rights on your computer and ask them to give you admin privileges, or have them type their administrator username and password when asked for it during the Office installation. In the Control Panel window, select User Accounts > Change your account type.
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