@carlfranklin my kid wants full admin access to their PC so they can play Genshin Impact which wants to install and run anti cheat stuff in the kernel. I’m against and becoming unpopular. Does SecurityThisWeek have any thoughts or advice?
@nogginbox Let's ask @dlaflotte...
@carlfranklin @nogginbox sorry for the late reply. So my suggestion ( and what I’ve done with my kids ) is I’ll usually allow known anti cheats to be installed. I still usually keep them with just user accounts and not admin so we can make that decision together. But either way I make sure their pc’s are on a guest style Wi-Fi away from our pc we do banking or store family pictures and backups on. That way if they do get something nasty the only thing it affects is their own pc. Then they can learn to rebuild a pc which is a great teaching moment :)
@dlaflotte @carlfranklin thanks for the reply. I ended up letting them play the iPhone version after clearing 1/3 of the phone’s disk space to make room. So I sidestepped the issue for now. Kids still think I’m being stupid so not sure I’ve successfully taught them anything about keeping their computers secure.