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Problem might be that whoever is clicking restore is likely running that software as an admin thereby the user clicking restore is the admin user. I'm not 100% sure though, but I think that's the behavior.

Edit:

Found this[0] to clarify what happens when you run software as UAC. I can imagine an A/V program needs admin privileges to run altogether.

[0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625963.aspx




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