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Windows protects processes by marking their integrity levels. Integrity levels are measurements of trust:
- A *high integrity application* is one that performs tasks that modify system data, such as a disk partitioning application
- A *low integrity application* is one that performs tasks that could potentially compromise the operating system, like as a Web brows
- A *low integrity application* is one that performs tasks that could potentially compromise the operating system, like as a Web browser
Applications with lower integrity levels can't modify data in applications with higher integrity levels. When a standard user attempts to run an app that requires an administrator access token, UAC requires that the user provides valid administrator credentials.