Kristian Rink wrote:
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- poorly crafted applications demanding way too many permissions
because the application developers never cared about playing along
nicely with Windows security architecture (you know, if someone gave me
a €0.01 each time a device driver installation routine on Windows XP
explicitely told me to install the driver _despite_ it's neither signed
nor verified by Windows, ...).
I do not want to stand up for Windows here, my personal preferences are
rather clear about that. I also don't want to ignore that some of these
reasons are caused by inconsistencies in the Windows architecture
merely forcing users into doing what they do (if Windows would behave
well and install a legacy application for the user installing it
despite the rights the application demands during install, things would
be way easier...). But, I dare to say that, given the same level of
experience, the same set of user policies, and a similar set of
software chosen by security aspects, a Windows system can be hardened
as much as a Unix/Linux system could.
Cheers,
Kristian
I dare say that is your big one right here. I have WAY too many programs that come through and will NOT run unless they have Admin privleges. Printer Drivers, games, Text Editors........ there again there is the M$ habit of stuffing user DLLs into System area ....... :-( Bad Dog!
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