My son got a pop up today saying the Battle.net Admin Agent wanted permissions. I cannot find anything online about this popup other than the Admin agent is an exe within the WoW folder and shows up as a process while running WoW. I told him to click “No” and decided to post here to see if anyone knows what the pop up was all about.
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Just advice…
Right click the Battle.net icon and run as Administrator for them if you wish to allow this. This is normal for Battle.net to run as Admin.
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I have never had Battle.net run as an Administrator on my PC in 15 years. And this isn’t the Battle.net launcher exe, it is a different exe within the Battle.net folder that just randomly popped up asking for permissions.
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Look inside the connection doc in the error folder. It should say ran as admin.
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There is no connection doc in the error folder. Someone else had this pop up today as well. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard/t/weird-administrator-request-from-battlenet/49439
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Then I would make a post in …
They might guide you better.
Good luck, or…
https://us.battle.net/support/en/search
More than 100 results found for
“PC or Mac Please make sure you are running this program as an administrator and try again.”
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Why would customer support assist with a technical issue? This has to do with an .exe asking for elevated permissions out of no where. It’s not related to anything customer support handles.
For someone who has been using computers since 1978 you’d think with your expertise you’d actual look at the issue I stated and give applicable solutions. Battle.net is running fine, WoW is running fine. There was not an error code. There were absolutely no issues that required either to be run as administrator. Running an app as administrator is a troubleshooting option for most users. There was nothing to troubleshoot. My son woke his PC up and a pop-up message came up and said “Battle.net Admin Agent is requesting permissions.” The only option on the pop-up was “No” and message explaining giving a program elevated permission is a risk. My entire question was “why is it asking for elevated permissions out of nowhere?” You have not provided an answer to that question. The link I posted had another person who doesn’t even play WoW have the same pop-up today. So again, why is this Agent asking for elevated permissions?
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An answer from a couple of years ago by the resident Technical Support Forum Agent:
This pop up is most common when the Blizzard Desktop Application is installing or patching a game.
Since the default installation of most Blizzard games goes into the C:\Program Files directory, UAC privilege elevation (admin access) is needed to install, replace, or patch files in that directory structure.
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Thank you. That is similar to what he experienced after his PC woke up. Battlenet launcher was open and running (He keeps it running all the time in case there’s an update while he’s at school) but he hadn’t launched a game or anything. We’ve never seen that pop-up before, and it was odd that it wouldn’t let him say “yes” unless he clicked through a couple sub-links explaining the risks. I was curious as neither his mom or me had a pop-up like that today on our PC’s.
I just had the same pop up. Been playing this came since release never had anything like it before, looked suspicious to me.
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Same here, just now. I’ve been playing since 2005/6 and have never seen it act this way.
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The Bnet app submit this in order to scan your system checking your system hardware and software versions etc. if by chance it locates something not updated etc it will auto update these files. For instanced I removed the voice .exe file and during the scan, it auto updates and adds this .exe back.
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I did as well - three times when I just tried to sign on. I keep saying yes and it kept ignoring me. The bnet app has been buggy since I did a windows update yesterday or the day before.
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Ditto, just had it, second time in the past couple of days.
Is this also connected with the random security check it does? It’s been doing that for several months now. Made me wonder if it was B-NET induced or an Add-on triggering it.
For a while I was just closing B-NET.
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just got this pop up, followed by a couple pop-ups from blizzard updater. i’m mid-game, why is this happening??
…that… sounded very panic’d. sorry, just… i’m very confused by this.
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ive been getting these a few times a day as well recently
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I was in a call with a friend and it happened to her. After about 10 mins it happened to me. It was four times it popped for me but it’s just weird that it happened.
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this feels like less a malicious thing and more of a blizzard ignorance thing
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I also had this same popup while I was doing a dungeon with the girlfriend, it popped up twice… both times I hit yes, after doing so I felt weird about it.
About 15 minutes later she got the popup, but did not click on anything and it went away.
Kind of feels funny, so I’m looking forward to a blue post by this.
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Just happened to me when accepting a quest (The Order of Embers). I know Blizzard doesn’t have humans working in-game anymore, just wanted to make sure it was safe to click Yes.
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