Running as Admin with UAC
disabled is a sure way to install a malware/spyware virus before
you know it, which is why Admin/root accounts don't usually even
allow direct logins by default in either Windows or Linux. It
makes you easily susceptible to malicious websites exploiting
vulnerabilities in a browser to execute privileged code as root.
You may think you don't have a virus, but then the malware
authors may have just wanted you to keep thinking that. 😉 It's
not recommended to do that sort of thing, especially on any
machine you'll put on the internet.
Then I must be particularly lucky....
Bitdefender, Kaspersky, MalwareBytes, and some others (run every
few days...) declare my PC clean and smelling like a rose, despite
adventuring on Internet daily with all those paranoid shields
turned off.. and this has been true for the past 35 years or so...
The secret is not to be stupid, and to pay attention when you
click on a link... doing so only after having carefully verified
where that link really points to, not relying only
on its name.