Re: MSN gaming zone is a security risk

From: Pent (pent)
Date: 10/24/03

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    Could you clarify?
    Are you talking about 3rd party games that are offered at zone.msn.com?
    Some of them may very well require admin rights. That has to be taken over
    to whoever wrote the game, not msn site.

    "Dis Gruntled" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:05b101c399d1$b14acdb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
    > I am very dissapointed that you can now only access the
    > msn gaming zone from the administrator log in while using
    > Windows 2k.
    >
    > I want to allow users of my system access to the msn game
    > network but cannot because of the inherent security risk.
    >
    > Insisting that someone be online and under the
    > administrator login in order to use the service is
    > unprofessional and foolish.
    >
    > Thumbs down to MSN, I hope this really hurts usage of the
    > site. I know that I will no longer access it until the
    > problem is fixed.
    >
    > Maybe they are just trying to lower the system burden so
    > that it will actually run on a Windows server.
    >
    > Off to post this all over the internet to inspire the
    > ridicule it deserves.


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