Re: registry hacked under XP limited account

From: Max Burke (mlvburke_at_%$%#@.nz)
Date: 05/29/05

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    > Stefan Kanthak scribbled:
    > WRONG: running as limited or restricted user on a properly setup XP or
    > 2K system prevents malware from infecting or compromising the system
    > itself or other user accounts.

    All good advice....

    But (theres always a but)

    Have you ever tried to set up a user account on XP (Home AND Pro) and still
    have ALL the applications, utilities, etc function as they do when running
    as administrator?
    It cannot be done for most ordinary users (like myself) who just want to be
    able install and run applications that they/we use everyday.

    The huge ammount of tweaking, configuring, exceptions being allowed to just
    run applications and utilities, and to even get some Microsofts applications
    to work on a limited account just doesn't cut it for the ordinary user.

    If the ordinary user wanted to have to do this just to get any program to
    work they'd be using some version of *nix, not Windows. ;-)

    You either have to give up using the applications and utilities you user
    every day or run as administrator.

    Not that Microsoft is entirely to blame here; It just as much the fault of
    third party developers who insist taht their application/utility has to run
    with FULL admistrator privilleges or not at all.

    Microsoft need to make XP a LOT easier to setup limited user accounts that
    can still run any applications/utilities that needs adminstrator level
    access; Developers need to make their applications run with either limited
    or administrator level access.

    I have tried quite a few times to set up and run limited user accounts on XP
    Home and XP Pro and every time had to give up and revert back to running a
    Administrator account just to do my 'every things' I do with my computer.

    I now take the view that as long as I maintain a fully up to date patched
    and secure systems, and enforce 'safe hex' practices then running as
    administrator is the best and only viable, user friendly option for the
    ordinary user wanting to do their ordinary everyday work on their computers.

    Hopefully microsoft are improving this 'situation' in Longhorn... 

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