At 11:30 AM 24/01/2006, Carroll Kong wrote:
As many have agreed, the real Microsoft security problem is the fact that it runs as "administrator" by default. Harden that up a bit more and you will nearly all of these security issues mysteriously disappear. Hopefully Microsoft will get to a stage where this will be easier to do for most users.
I'm not sure on that. I had a machine in a few weeks ago where all the users were limited users (I had to boot into Safe Mode to get in as Administrator.) So in theory there should have been no or very little spyware on the system, but it was loaded up with it. If running as a non-Admin user is supposed to protect users, shouldn't this machine have been largely immune to infection?
T
