Re: user account out of control

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"Paul Montgomery" <nonnymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d3jea4hr9i0jn3ka63svg8m3qq8dkagci8@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:37:54 -0400, "Mr. Arnold" <Arnold@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

And as far as users going back to XP to get compromised and hacked to
death because they won't surf the Internet as a Limited user but they
would rather do it has Admin, then let them go back to it.

Not all who do get "hacked to death".

And nither did I.

I ran XP for nearly 7 years as Admin. No virus. No malware. No
phishing problems. Nothing but smooth computing.

I ran Win NT, Win 2K pro and Win XP pro over 12 years, nothing but smooth computing, because I knew how to protect the machines running the O/S(s).

It wasn't until I loaded Vista last May that I found out about all the
horrors I'd been maneuvering my way through, how much broken glass I'd
been walking on, how many hoops of fire I'd been leaping through - and
how Vista was now protecting me from all of it.

Many, many others were not so luck as they sat out there on the Internet as Admin with the happy fingers clicking on everything under the Sun at dubious Web sites, got hit on Web site drive by(s) with things installing or opening dubious/unknown email attachments and things installed silently, which wouldn't have happened if using a Limited or Standard account as the surfed or opened email attachments or they were practicing safehex computing.

I turned UAC off because it was annoying the freakin' heck outta me,
and I'm even MORE unpleasant when annoyed than I am now.

You turn you UAC off if that makes you happy, but I prefer not to do so. For the ones that did get hammered on those previous platforms and are on Vista, then maybe, the should leave it on, because everyone is not you.

Those kind of threats are present, they are not going anywhere and they will click.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Hundreds-Click-on-Click-Here-to-Get-Infected-Ad/

So, as Admin and UAC is enabled, it's better than nothing at all, and they get some kind of an alert. It's not bullet proof, but it's better than nothing.

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