Re: Melissa Virus

[Richard Letts]

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Paul Farber wrote:

> You SHOULD have to type into a special "admin" account to install/remove a
> program.  Single user or not.  You cannot make it any "righter" by saying
> a single user is only hurting himself.  It's just a bad policy/secruity
> measure to alway log in as root, but MS seems not to care, let the user,
> or IS or tech support figure out what go changed.

funnily enough I have to login on my windowsNT machine as 'administrator'
to install/remove a program. when I login as ais007 I can't ... 

> Windows already supports user profiles, why not extend that into a super
> user that you must change to to modify the system?
it does

richard