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Beware PowerShell: Too-helpful users tricked into ‘fixing’ their machines with malware
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Hot take: to Most windows users (not you) probably shouldn't be able to access power shell or cmd.exe at all.
You can't in S mode
The stupid thing is you can't reenter S mode once you've left.
Family member needed printer software that wasn't on MS Store, so I told them we'd need to drop S mode to get it, which meant reducing security. Now I have to be the defacto IT person and the security team for them.