Hi Josh and all, Speaking from network admin experience running as administrator is just not plane safe or computer secure. When you run administrator anything you download or run under XP has full system wide access potentially leaving viruses, spyware, and other malware free reign to do what it wants. General computer safe practice is to have one admin account for software installs, system wide changes like changing services, and at least one standard user account for day to day use for internet, email, office, etc. I would strongly urge you in the strongest manner possible to move your data to a non admin account, and use admin for only system upgrades and other changes you can only make as admin. A thing everyone here needs to understand when new admins take any networking course on Windows server or Linux server etc network admin 101 is never run as admin unless absolutely necessary. This fact is something that has not caught on well with the general public, and the reason viruses and worms have been allowed to run rampent. Windows 98 etc were not secure operating environments, and even when the os, Windows XP, etc became more so end users didn't have the know-how or desire to make XP more secure. Now, days I think Microsoft is now realising what Linux developers knew all along is that most general users need to be forced to use a secure operating environment out of the box. Ubuntu Linux, for example, has the admin account disabled by default. If you want to do anything you must run the app via sudo and your super user password. Either that or modify the script files where the root admin account is disabled for full admin rights. Bottom line weather we are talking Windows Vista, Ubuntu Linux 6.10, FreeBSD, etc the authors of such software are really making the entire operating environment secure, some might think draconian, but most users just don't know how to create a more secure operating environment unless it is handed to them out of the box. I've heard more than one user here on this list say "I just run XP as admin," and that is the largest problem with internet security today. Not running the operating system as it was intended to be run with most rights disabled unless required as in installs and major changes.
Josh wrote: > yes, I wanted to know that also. As far as I know on my xp machine and on my > wife's machine ours is always running in administrator mode. > > Josh > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
